October 12, 2020

Catherine Pakaluk, director and assistant professor, social research, was interviewed by the Crux about her research project examining the contours of American childbearing and family formation. 

..."But if you spend enough time thinking about falling fertility eventually you start to ask the question of why people have children at all and what really shapes decision making. Economists look narrowly at the way in which incentives and constraints bind and loose people on the margin, and yet we know that real human beings have a rich set of motives and human experiences."...

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