One possibly scalable intervention here would be a dating site (or other matchmaking service) that didn’t have the fundamental conflict of interest where its income stream depends on its users failing to form successful long-term relationships.
The probability of success would be low, and even if you did gain a large market share it would only solve a fraction of the problem, but the cost of trying might be low enough that despite those factors it would still be a worthwhile philanthropic investment.
Even more speculatively, I was thinking of whether trying to reduce wedding costs would be effective. Married couples have much higher birth rates than unmarried couples, and it looks like it might be partly causal. For instance, I know couples who waited to have children till they married and waited to marry until they could pay for a wedding.
One possibly scalable intervention here would be a dating site (or other matchmaking service) that didn’t have the fundamental conflict of interest where its income stream depends on its users failing to form successful long-term relationships.
The probability of success would be low, and even if you did gain a large market share it would only solve a fraction of the problem, but the cost of trying might be low enough that despite those factors it would still be a worthwhile philanthropic investment.
Yeah, I think this would worth be trying.
Even more speculatively, I was thinking of whether trying to reduce wedding costs would be effective. Married couples have much higher birth rates than unmarried couples, and it looks like it might be partly causal. For instance, I know couples who waited to have children till they married and waited to marry until they could pay for a wedding.