What Robin Hanson thinks about education

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Associate professor of economics at George Mason University, originator of decision markets and futarchy, and author of the blog Overcoming Bias.

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1. 17 Jan 2024

   Our readingPaying parents large sums of cash directly is the pronatal policy most likely to work, because every indirect policy has to guess what the real obstacle is.

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   Their wordsSimilarly, most recent discussions of how to promote fertility discuss how we might promote housing, inequality, schooling, day-care, etc., but few consider directly paying parents big amounts to have kids. As indirect approaches require us to guess what are the actual main obstacles to fertility, they are more likely to fail.

   ↗Five Fertility Failsovercomingbias.com 3rd of 3 in this piece