# Lyman Stone Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and a PhD candidate at McGill University. Page: Feed: --- ## [You Should Know About Surveys to Write About Surveys](https://lymanstone.substack.com/p/you-should-know-about-surveys-to) _2026-08-14 · Lyman Stone_ Are men happy to be replaced? ## [Somalians and Christians](https://lymanstone.substack.com/p/somalians-and-christians) _2026-08-06 · Lyman Stone_ The problem of tolerance ## [Two Reasons Why Daycare Isn't the Answer to Low Fertility](https://lymanstone.substack.com/p/two-reasons-why-daycare-isnt-the) _2026-07-31 · Lyman Stone_ Time is the ultimate limit, and expectations reset on social structures. ## [Can Sharing a Surname Save Your Marriage?](https://lymanstone.substack.com/p/can-sharing-a-surname-save-your-marriage) _2026-07-30 · Lyman Stone_ Updates and responses to critiques ## [We Should Have a Mega-Baby-Bonus](https://lymanstone.substack.com/p/we-should-have-a-mega-baby-bonus) _2026-07-07 · Lyman Stone_ Happy Birthday, America. ## [A New Measurement of Maternal Mortality](https://lymanstone.substack.com/p/a-new-measurement-of-maternal-mortality) _2026-06-03 · Lyman Stone_ U.S. maternal mortality is low, and most cases of maternal mortality are of women with rather short counterfactual life expectancies. ## [Falling Marriage Caused Turkey's Recent Fertility Decline](https://lymanstone.substack.com/p/falling-marriage-caused-turkeys-recent) _2026-05-26 · Lyman Stone_ And the digital revolution caused falling marriage. 5G won't zap your balls but it will zap your heart. ## [The (Fake) Long Decline of Fertility](https://lymanstone.substack.com/p/the-fake-long-decline-of-fertility) _2026-05-19 · Lyman Stone_ There are three fundamental forces shaping fertility in the long run... and also cell phones ## [What Will the Build Now Act Do To States?](https://lymanstone.substack.com/p/what-will-the-build-now-act-do-to) _2026-05-15 · Lyman Stone_ 18 states will lose money so that 5 states can gain money-- but 90% of the benefits go to just two cities. ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QtZATtBzl58X) _2026-05-15 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [The Mathematical Insanity of the Build Now Act](https://lymanstone.substack.com/p/the-mathematical-insanity-of-the) _2026-05-14 · Lyman Stone_ Opaque, bizarre, disproportionate, and sometimes just plain stupid. Congress will probably pass it. It's just a scheme to take money from Texas and California and give it to New York City.