Podcasts · The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes
How will falling fertility rates hurt the economy? With Melissa Kearney
· 34 min
Episode How will falling fertility rates hurt the economy? With Melissa Kearney
Typically, a society’s population remains stable if women have about 2.1 children each. By that metric, the word has a big problem. In developed countries the total fertility rate is well below that figure. So what are the economic consequences of that shortfall? Soumaya Keynes speaks to Melissa Kearney, a professor at the University of Notre Dame and the director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, which recently put out a series on the topic: Demographic Headwinds: The Economic Consequences of Lower Birth Rates and Longer Lives.They discuss why the fertility rate won’t reverse course any time soon — and what happens when the rest of the baby boomers retire.
Further reading:
Why are fertility rates collapsing? Gender roles
Could working from home solve the global fertility crisis?
Subscribe to Soumaya's show on Apple, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever you listen.
Presented by Soumaya Keynes. Produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval. Michela Tindera is the senior producer. Original music and sound design by Breen Turner. The FT head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Links in the notes 7
- https://www.ft.com/content/e1a7fd72-9790-498e-a4ef-9380f5da1e9e?accessToken=zwAAAZ56v4jQktPhp_1yl5BJjtOk75OA9doentOwhCXB8s5Ii9OpXEuSpebLOAE.MEUCIQCjYLDur8tTjrPxy3nJNGMqZVeIviACKUW0uWmmGOlgSgIgMhR0qZxHnuFVsv-h3VC62JNsQ1HNbhQ1uFSW2pdLRH0&segmentId=85462057-4e57-56c2-164f-e4ce1f09e15f
- https://www.ft.com/content/b08425c1-f2ce-488b-a95c-4b92a5e6cb38?accessToken=zwAAAZ56v4jQktPhp_1yl5BJjtOk75OA9doentOwhCXB8s5Ii9OpXEuSpebLOAE.MEUCIQCjYLDur8tTjrPxy3nJNGMqZVeIviACKUW0uWmmGOlgSgIgMhR0qZxHnuFVsv-h3VC62JNsQ1HNbhQ1uFSW2pdLRH0&segmentId=85462057-4e57-56c2-164f-e4ce1f09e15f
- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-economics-show-with-soumaya-keynes/id1746352576
- https://open.spotify.com/show/64rPqCkSSBkuSJpkMLRe9i?si=70c1cb4221e54c9a
- https://pca.st/6ysdzw0j
- https://www.ft.com/content/caed8401-27bf-48d6-92f5-bdd90ca102ba
- https://acast.com/privacy
Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them. Explicit shows are for adult profiles only, and children’s profiles hear only children’s shows. More about this list.