Lyman Stone
Person on 3 sites
Demographer. Director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies and a research fellow at Cardus, he writes about fertility, marriage…
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Updated 2026-10-26 -
16 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The global fall in births over the past two centuries is mostly explained by falling child mortality, and that part of the question is settled. (opens korrents.com)
“The main cause of falling fertility globally over the last 200 years has been declining child mortality.”
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Calling the fall in birth rates a mystery is not humility but obscurantism: there is already a good causal account of it. (opens korrents.com)
“we really do have a good causal model of how to think about fertility decline!”
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The theory that birth rates fall because home life has not caught up with women's opportunities at work is not supported by the data. (opens korrents.com)
“within societies, more gender-egalitarian people almost never have more kids than less gender-egalitarian people, and in a panel model, changes in the mismatch rate have no relationship to fertility”
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The global fall in births over the past two centuries is mostly explained by falling child mortality, and that part of the question is settled. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Silk (opens rcmnd.app)
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Silk (opens rcmnd.app)