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Understanding Latin America’s Fertility Decline

This paper examines the sharp decline in fertility across Latin America using both period and cohort measures. Combining Vital Statistics, Census microdata, and UN population data, we decompose changes in fertility by age, education, and joint age–education groups. We show that the decline in period fertility between 2000 and 2022 is driven primarily by reductions […] The post Understanding Latin America’s Fertility Decline appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsWon't declining fertil...

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Geopolitics

The Arctic Frontier America Can’t Ignore

Trump’s Greenland initiative reflects real concerns about China, Russia, and control of the North Atlantic. The post The Arctic Frontier America Can’t Ignore appeared first on The American Conservative

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Business

Ben Horowitz On What Makes a Great Founder

On the show Long Strange Trip, Sequoia Capital partner Brian Halligan speaks with a16z’s Ben Horowitz about what separates great founder CEOs from everyone else. Ben explains why first-time founders lose confidence, defer too much to senior hires, and let decision debt paralyze their companies. They discuss where founder mode works and where people are taking it too far, why the VP of Sales is the hire founders mess up more than any other, and why Andy Grove's "constructive confrontation" mat...

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Politics

The Trump Administration’s NEH Agenda

Having failed to dismantle the endowment, the administration is now seeing whether it can be used to promote its own ideological projects. The post The Trump Administration’s NEH Agenda appeared first on The American Conservative

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