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Hacking State · Feb 13, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min

44 - Daniel Hess: Fixing the Fertility Crisis

Daniel Hess is the writer behind More Births, ideas for reversing the collapse in global fertility. MoreBirths is a data-driven resource dedicated to helping humanity to understand and ultimately solve the low birthrate crisis that has taken hold across the world. We discuss: - Factors contributing to the fertility crisis - Why Israel is an exception among developed nations in fertility - The power of strong pro-natal belief - Components of the “Fertility Stack” - The Amish as the highest fertility group in America - The importance of allo-parenting and grandparents - The role of religiosity -Why economic arguments don’t explain low fertility - Embattlement as an explanation for nations’ fertility - The limits of egg freezing and IVF - The effectiveness of pro-natal public policy interventions - How the housing we build affects fertility More Births Substack: https://www.morebirths.com/ Daniel Hess on X: https://x.com/MoreBirths If you enjoyed this interview, please leave a review on Spotify/iTunes. Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe Listen on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml

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Daniel Hess is the writer behind More Births, ideas for reversing the collapse in global fertility. MoreBirths is a data-driven resource dedicated to helping humanity to understand and ultimately solve the low birthrate crisis that has taken hold across the world.

We discuss:

- Factors contributing to the fertility crisis

- Why Israel is an exception among developed nations in fertility

- The power of strong pro-natal belief - Components of the “Fertility Stack”

- The Amish as the highest fertility group in America

- The importance of allo-parenting and grandparents

- The role of religiosity

-Why economic arguments don’t explain low fertility

- Embattlement as an explanation for nations’ fertility

- The limits of egg freezing and IVF

- The effectiveness of pro-natal public policy interventions

- How the housing we build affects fertility

 

More Births Substack: https://www.morebirths.com/

Daniel Hess on X: https://x.com/MoreBirths

 

 

If you enjoyed this interview, please leave a review on Spotify/iTunes.

Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe

Listen on:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg

RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml

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