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Lyman Stone on Demographic and Marriage Decline

Lyman Stone on Demographic and Marriage Decline

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Lyman Stone is a demographer and the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies. In Lyman’s first appearance on the show, he discusses demographic and marriage decline, the fallacy in the thinking of degrowthers, the benefits of pronatalist policy, and much more.

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Recorded on February 13th, 2025

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Timestamps:

(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:02:04) – Lyman Stone’s Career Path

(00:04:54) – Demography as a Discipline

(00:10:41) – Demographic Decline

(00:15:28) – Decline of Marriage

(00:32:24) – Degrowthers

(00:43:15) – Possible Policy Solutions

(00:54:50) – Outro

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