Senior Fellow, Director of the Pronatalism Initiative
Lyman Stone is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies. He is also the Director of Research at the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence. In 2025, he earned a PhD in Sociology at McGill University with a Population Dynamics specialization.
His work has been covered in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Vox, and The Federalist, as well as numerous local outlets. He formerly worked as an international economist for USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service and currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife and three daughters. They formerly lived in Hong Kong.
Lyman Stone, Director IFS Pronatalism Initiative, joins Chris Williamson, Modern Wisdom Podcast, to talk about the variety of factors playing into collapsing fertility rates. Hosted by Modern Wisdom, Lyman Stone
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