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The Economist’s Guide to Parenting: 10 Years Later (Ep. 479 Replay)

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Do You Have Too Many Kids?

The amount of investment you can make in your children is a function of how many you have. It's just impossible to spread two adults as thickly over four children as you would over one. The kind of investments that you make in your kids, i think, don't actually pay very big returns,. Honestly, i didn't invest very intensely in the first round of four kids and they mostly turned out pretty good.

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