ericyu3 comments on Economics/demographics question: If a child unexpectedly dies, how much does this shrink the next generation? - Less Wrong Discussion
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One way to start estimating it would be to correlate local sex ratios with local birth rates and try to control for as many things as possible. Unfortunately, this is probably very hard to do...
I'm actually most interested in the answer for modern poor countries, which are neither stable in population nor Malthusian. Basically, I'm wondering how interventions that save lives of one gender (but not the other) today will affect the population size 20 to 30 years in the future. Non-replacement fertility doesn't qualitatively change things: the question just becomes whether a life saved increases the population by more or less than "next generation's size / current generation's size". Replacement fertility is just the special case where the ratio is 1; I used that number in my question only for simplicity.