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Lyman Stone: Growing the Population - A Kitchen Sink Approach

From the New World

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How to Frontload Cash to Increase Fertility

For every percentage point of the total cost of child rearing that your policy covers, you will increase fertility by that percent as long as you don't pay for it by hurting families in some other way. Hungary did all these pronatal policies, but they paid for it by cutting other family benefits. You can reduce housing costs by liberalizing zoning and letting people build where they want. And we need educational innovation to compress the same amount of human capital development. In fewer years of schooling.

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