{"podcast":{"title":"EXIT Podcast","slug":"exit-podcast-5646171","podcast_index_feed_id":5646171,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/579643.rss","website_url":"https://blog.exitgroup.us/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/579643/592abceff78d1433dcebd36d4bf66a71.jpg","author":"Bennett's Phylactery","episode_count":75,"summary":"The Official Podcast of EXIT Group.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exit-podcast-5646171"},"episode":{"title":"NatalCon Sold Out; Catherine Pakaluk on Hannah's Children","slug":"natalcon-sold-out-catherine-pakaluk-on-hannah-s-children","published_at":"2025-03-25T15:45:49+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exit-podcast-5646171/natalcon-sold-out-catherine-pakaluk-on-hannah-s-children","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exit-podcast-5646171","url":"https://blog.exitgroup.us/p/natalcon-sold-out-catherine-pakaluk","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/159568160/bf368a6b347675a04ad99aa2b856fd37.mp3","summary":"This week we had a Q&A with Catherine Pakaluk, professor of economics at The Catholic University of America and author of Hannah’s Children , a study of women with six or more children — what makes them different, how they understand the decision to raise a large family, and what they can teach us about the causes of demographic decline. Topics: * What causes some people to maintain a firm connection between marriage and children? * Why are secular Israelis the only secular population in a developed country that are maintaining replacement fertility? * How does mortality salience affect people’s desire for large families? * What percentage of large families are needed to create a “halo effect” that drives higher fertility in the general population? * How important is mentorship from older women in guiding young women to start families? * How to balance large family with other ambitions? * How can we change the way female employment is structured to incentivize family creation? * How do people with large families get their own children excited to raise families? EXIT News * Natal Conference is officially sold out . See you this weekend in Austin! * NatalCon Agenda (ticket-holders, check Luma for location details) : * Thursday: * Final virtual meet-&-greet for ticket-holders this Thursday, 3/27 at 7PM. * Friday: * In-person pre-event mixer with Jack Posobiec and other speakers on Fri 3:30PM. * Dinner and Reception from 6:00PM - 9:30PM * Saturday: * Lunch at 11:00AM * Conference from 12:30PM to 6:00PM * Dinner from 7:00PM to 9:00PM * After-party from 9:30M to 11:30PM * Sunday: * Brunch at 10:00AM * On tonight’s full-group call (3/25) we’ll be discussing preparedness in the Trump Administration . The honeymoon is over, markets are volatile, shadowy quasi-state violence…","meta_description":"This week we had a Q&A with Catherine Pakaluk, professor of economics at The Catholic University of America and author of Hannah’s Children , a study…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3507,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/exit-podcast-5646171/episodes/natalcon-sold-out-catherine-pakaluk-on-hannah-s-children/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exit-podcast-5646171/natalcon-sold-out-catherine-pakaluk-on-hannah-s-children.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}