The Great Fertility Collapse (with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde)
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Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem, and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econal.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is September tenth, twenty twenty six, and my guest is Jesus Fernanda Vierverde. The Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Our topic for today is fertility and demography. Based on a recent paper he wrote he co authored with Patrick Norick. And that paper is Terra incognita. The economics of a shrinking world. A paper I found to be honest.
Shocking. In its claims, but the claims are Mostly facts. So Uh put on your seatbelt, folks. It's gonna be an interesting ride. So we're gonna start with some basics. I told um
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