It’s particularly noteworthy how closely related two of the key events are: the wonders of Birth of Children vs the pain of Childbirth. I wonder if this suggests that targeting childbirth would be particularly effective, as it might ‘unlock’ a bit more of one of the key pleasures in a way that they other key pains do not. It seems like there might be some low hanging fruit here—in particular there are a lot of medications which have not been tested for use in pregnant women, where a clinical trial might increase women’s options. I could see there being cases where it is doesn’t make sense for pharma companies to do the trials (because the number of additional patients is small) but would be for us (because these patients matter a lot more, even though they would only pay the same amount for the drug).
Unrelatedly, another reason to expect Death of Father to be over-represented vs Death of Mother is that on average older men marry younger women.
Interesting article!
It’s particularly noteworthy how closely related two of the key events are: the wonders of Birth of Children vs the pain of Childbirth. I wonder if this suggests that targeting childbirth would be particularly effective, as it might ‘unlock’ a bit more of one of the key pleasures in a way that they other key pains do not. It seems like there might be some low hanging fruit here—in particular there are a lot of medications which have not been tested for use in pregnant women, where a clinical trial might increase women’s options. I could see there being cases where it is doesn’t make sense for pharma companies to do the trials (because the number of additional patients is small) but would be for us (because these patients matter a lot more, even though they would only pay the same amount for the drug).
Unrelatedly, another reason to expect Death of Father to be over-represented vs Death of Mother is that on average older men marry younger women.