What Robin Hanson thinks about family

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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. 3 Oct 2023

   Our readingGovernments should pay a lot for children and let the people who respond reveal which cultural compromises are acceptable, rather than deciding in advance which value to give up.

   Their wordsIt seems to me that an attractive robust approach is to have governments pay lots for kids (at no cost or risk to them!) and then let those who respond to these incentives tell us which compromises seem most attractive.

   ↗A Fertility Reckoningovercomingbias.com 3rd of 3 in this piece