For this month’s discussion, we will revisit fertility, particularly through the lens of Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World, a recent paper from Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Patrick Norrick.
Note that this will be the Fall ACX Meetups Everywhere meetup, so we will likely have some new folks in attendance. Please feel free to come even if you haven’t done the reading, you’re worried it will be awkward, you won’t fit in, or you aren’t the “typical person who comes to a Rationality meetup.” We are welcoming!
READINGS & MEDIA
- Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Patrick Norrick
- The Great Fertility Collapse (EconTalk)
podcast - Five Fertility Fails by Robin Hanson
- We Actually Know a lot About Fertility Decline by Lyman Stone
- The Fertility Crisis Isn’t Just for Rich Countries (City Journal)
short summary of the paper
DATE & LOCATION
Date: Saturday, 11/14 @ 2–4:30pm (roughly)
Location: South Loop Strength & Conditioning – upstairs in the mezzanine
645 S Clark
Chicago IL 60605
Note: Todd owns this gym so that’s why there’s a Rationality meetup at a gym 🙂