Why So Few Births? | Steven Davis, Claudia Goldin | Hoover Institution
Podcast: Economics, AppliedEpisode: Why So Few Births? | Steven Davis, Claudia Goldin | Hoover InstitutionPub date: 2025-09-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationClaudia Goldin joins Steven Davis to discuss the “The Downside of Fertility,” her essay presented at the 2025 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium. She offers an explanation for why fertility rates fell around the world as women gained greater agency in multiple domains (marriage, reproduction, education, labor markets). When women gain agency, Goldin argues that a “mismatch”…
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