Increased public debt and future liabilities (Social Security, Medicare) burden young people and may discourage them from having children because having a child now entails bearing the utility cost of the child's future taxation

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Speaker

Luigi Zales

Evidence Quote

I think that actually one of the thing that as an economist I like to to believe is one thing that lead to fewer children is the fact that now we are burdening future generation with enormous amount of liabilities right if you think about the size of the public debt and the size of the Social Security Medicare Etc liability

Source

The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall FergusonStigler Center
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:18:48 AM

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