Harvard professor thinks highly educated U.S. women aren't having enough babies. He wants ". . .  policymakers to consider solutions now."

Where do they get guys like this?

Comments

[Jake]

Reading between the lines, Ellwood's solution is to have the government subsidize rich families so that they have more kids.

I don't think so.

My experience is that high-power women who do not want kids, should not have them. And money would not be an incentive for them to have kids.

If America did not have immigration, I would worry more about this problem. But children of immigrants will furnish all the brainpower we need.

I also think that David Ellwood is an elitist snob.

[John Morrow]

Compare the amount and value of resources put into children that are consistent with social norms of HS dropout parents with those of college dropout parents and think about what percentage of each is privately funded. I think you will find that present policy amounts to a very large subsidy for the less educated to have children, and for those refusing things such as, say public schooling which is paid for regardless of usage amounting to disincentives to raising children who will likely do as well as their parents. Therefore if there is undesirable social activity and there are good indications that there are policies in effect exacerbating that activity, the policies should be evaluated.