Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“My previous post was on possible explanations for the decline in fertility in recent decades. That got me thinking about what future changes might reverse it. When I raised the question on my favorite online forum almost all of the responses were about what governments could do to push fertility up, which was not the question I was asking. The current decline was the result of changes, technological, social, perhaps ideological, not of governments deciding to push fertility down; it continued when many tried to push it up. My question is what changes might happen in the future with the opposite effect. My previous post mentioned one — selection for philoprogenitive cultures and individuals making them an increasing fraction of the population. What might be others?” (10/05/24)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/what-might-push-fertility-back-up