{"podcast":{"title":"Hacking State","slug":"hacking-state-6414128","podcast_index_feed_id":6414128,"rss_url":"https://hackingstate.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://hackingstate.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16289709/Profile_Picture_Stacked_Dark_under_25mb78oll.jpg","author":"Alex Murshak","episode_count":58,"summary":"Exploring how technology changes our relationship to power, each other, and ourselves.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T02:23:02.509613+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128"},"episode":{"title":"44 - Daniel Hess: Fixing the Fertility Crisis","slug":"44-daniel-hess-fixing-the-fertility-crisis","published_at":"2025-02-13T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128/44-daniel-hess-fixing-the-fertility-crisis","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128","url":"https://hackingstate.podbean.com/e/daniel-hess/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/s9fabryju5cji3vt/Daniel_Hess_-_audio6bbf4.mp3","summary":"Daniel Hess is the writer behind More Births, ideas for reversing the collapse in global fertility. MoreBirths is a data-driven resource dedicated to helping humanity to understand and ultimately solve the low birthrate crisis that has taken hold across the world. We discuss: - Factors contributing to the fertility crisis - Why Israel is an exception among developed nations in fertility - The power of strong pro-natal belief - Components of the “Fertility Stack” - The Amish as the highest fertility group in America - The importance of allo-parenting and grandparents - The role of religiosity -Why economic arguments don’t explain low fertility - Embattlement as an explanation for nations’ fertility - The limits of egg freezing and IVF - The effectiveness of pro-natal public policy interventions - How the housing we build affects fertility More Births Substack: https://www.morebirths.com/ Daniel Hess on X: https://x.com/MoreBirths If you enjoyed this interview, please leave a review on Spotify/iTunes. Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe Listen on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml","meta_description":"Daniel Hess is the writer behind More Births, ideas for reversing the collapse in global fertility. MoreBirths is a data-driven resource dedicated to help…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4696,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hacking-state-6414128/episodes/44-daniel-hess-fixing-the-fertility-crisis/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128/44-daniel-hess-fixing-the-fertility-crisis.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}