Lyman Stone

Kentucky

Lutheran Husband Dad Kentuckian Demographer. Please forgive me: my tweets are often accidentally mean. @DemographicNTEL, @FamStudies Pronatalism Initiative

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The Pronatal Benefits of Expanding the Child Tax Credit

6 days ago | ifstudies.org | Lyman Stone

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, economist Leonard Lopoo surveyed the international evidence on pronatalist policies, arguing that baby bonuses and other fiscal supports for parents “have proved costly and ineffective.” He concluded that such policies “may convince a couple to have a child earlier than originally planned.… But that’s it.… The government ends up paying for children who were already going to be born.” This view—that financial incentives do not greatly alter fertility...
The Clothes People Love (and Hate) on Men

2 weeks ago | cartoonshateher.com | Lyman Stone

Heads up, yesterday I announced the launch of personals ads that I’ll be running on this Substack! If you’re single and interested, the instructions for what/how to submit are here.
Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End

3 weeks ago | aei.org | Brad Wilcox |Lyman Stone

Elon Musk told a conference in Saudi Arabia last year that his listeners “should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem [we] need to solve. If you don’t make new humans, there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter.” In this way, he spotlighted his commitment to the pronatalist cause—the idea that society must do more to prevent population decline due to falling fertility rates.
Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End

3 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Lyman Stone |Brad Wilcox

Elon Musk told a conference in Saudi Arabia last year that his listeners “should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem [we] need to solve. If you don’t make new humans, there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter.” In this way, he spotlighted his commitment to the pronatalist cause—the idea that society must do more to prevent population decline due to falling fertility rates.
The Men's Fashion Survey Is Finally Here!

1 month ago | cartoonshateher.com | Lyman Stone

A while ago, I announced that I was taking submissions for men who wanted to be featured in my men’s fashion survey, which I would be conducting with the help of , who knows way more about statistics than I do. Today, the survey is finally here! Thank you to all the men who submitted outfits.
Cutting Property Taxes for Seniors Is Bad for American Families

1 month ago | ifstudies.org | Lyman Stone

Around the country, property taxes are one of the main ways that local governments finance things like police, schools, local roads, fire departments, and other services. As we laid out in a recent report, these kinds of basic government services are hugely important for families. More than almost anything else, Blue States’ failures to provide the kind of basic services that most families want is a key reason families are migrating away to Red states. Property taxes are often unpopular.
The Problem with Polygyny

1 month ago | quillette.com | Lyman Stone

Men who have lots of babies with lots of different women seem to be having a moment right now. Between Elon Musk’s outspoken pronatalism and Andrew Tate’s penchant for sexual aggression, it’s easy to see how somebody might think that we may be about to enter a new social phase: the death of monogamy.
A Pro Family Housing Agenda

1 month ago | newgeography.com | Wendell Cox |Lyman Stone

There is considerable concern about housing affordability in the United States. Housing is the most expensive element of the cost of living, which makes it an important issue to both households and governments. Indeed, the high cost of housing relative to income (i.e. the degree of affordability) is an existential threat to the future of the middle-class in some housing markets (metropolitan areas), and even threatens to jeopardize the demographic future of the republic.
Why you can't meet women at bars any more

1 month ago | becomingnoble.substack.com | Johann Kurtz |Chris Williamson |Louise Perry |Lyman Stone

Last week I offered a brief five-century history of marriage to explain the accelerating bifurcation of relationships into those which are highly generative and those which are never produce children (‘Don’t pay people to get married’). One aside in that piece which people seemed to enjoy was an explanation for the odd reason that women now give for not pair-bonding: …the most common explanation that women offer if you ask why they’re not getting married: ‘the men are awful and unworthy’.
How the Other Half Suffers

2 months ago | thedispatch.com | Greg Fournier |Lyman Stone |Terence Kealey |Charlotte Lawson

Almost immediately after assuming the presidency for the second time, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order freezing all foreign aid. In the weeks since, according to the New York Times, “The whole system of finding, diagnosing and treating tuberculosis . . . has collapsed in dozens of countries across Africa and Asia.” The consequences of this system collapse in places like Kenya are dismal:Family members of infected people are not being put on preventive therapy.