This week we had a Q&A with Catherine Pakaluk, professor of economics at The Catholic University of America and author of Hannah’s Children, a study of women with six or more children — what makes them different, how they understand the decision to raise a large family, and what they can teach us about the causes of demographic decline.
Topics:
* What causes some people to maintain a firm connection between marriage and children?
* Why are secular Israelis the only secular population in a developed country that are maintaining replacement fertility?
* How does mortality salience affect people’s desire for large families?
* What percentage of large families are needed to create a “halo effect” that drives higher fertility in the general population?
* How important is mentorship from older women in guiding young women to start families?
* How to balance large family with other ambitions?
* How can we change the way female employment is structured to incentivize family creation?
* How do people with large families get their own children excited to raise families?
EXIT News
* Natal Conference is officially sold out. See you this weekend in Austin!
* NatalCon Agenda (ticket-holders, check Luma for location details):
* Thursday:
* Final virtual meet-&-greet for ticket-holders this Thursday, 3/27 at 7PM.
* Friday:
* In-person pre-event mixer with Jack Posobiec and other speakers on Fri 3:30PM.
* Dinner and Reception from 6:00PM - 9:30PM
* Saturday:
* Lunch at 11:00AM
* Conference from 12:30PM to 6:00PM
* Dinner from 7:00PM to 9:00PM
* After-party from 9:30M to 11:30PM
* Sunday:
* Brunch at 10:00AM
* On tonight’s full-group call (3/25) we’ll be discussing preparedness in the Trump Administration. The honeymoon is over, markets are volatile, shadowy quasi-state violence is back — it’s time to adjust our threat model.
