NEW: Brazil's recent census found 203 million people -- 5 million fewer than expected. The culprit? A fertility rate diving much further than anyone expected throughout Latin America. Big consequences for politics and government budgets. More here: americasquarterly.org/article/latin-…

Simposio Tendencias de la fecundidad en CR: Desafíos y oportunidades para el futuro compartido, 29 de febrero - 9 a.m. Auditorio de CIMAR, Ciudad de la Investigación, UCR. Inscripciones bit.ly/3OLN0NC CCP - UCR , INEC Costa Rica , Estado de la Nación y UNFPA en Costa Rica.

I'm honored to be speaking after Luis Rosero-Bixby at this panel on Costa Rica's ultra-low fertility on Thursday. He is one of a handful of Latin American demographers bringing attention to the astonishing speed of this phenomenon in the region.

La fecundidad en partes de América Latina está cayendo tres o cuatro veces más rápido que en Estados Unidos. Mi entrevista con Alexandra Colón-Amil ntn24.com/noticias-espec… via NTN24

What do Oxford University, the International Olympic Committee, and J.P. Morgan have in common? They’ve never been run by a woman (in their combined +1,000 year history!). 📌 manplanet.sociopublico.com

Very impressed by Irene Rodríguez Salas's coverage for La Nación of the seminar on Costa Rica's fertility crisis that I spoke at last week. We need this kind of reporting in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and other LAC countries where this topic is almost completely ignored.

By the early 02030s, 70 percent of the world’s entire land-based astronomical data gathering capacity is expected to be concentrated in an swath of Chilean desert about the size of Oregon. How did Chile become a global capital for astronomy? @Presentbias takes a closer look.

Very grateful to astronomer Bárbara Rojas-Ayala 🌟Bárbara Rojas-Ayala🌟 for her perspective on how Chile became the global capital of astronomy while grappling with poverty and political disenchantment. longnow.org/ideas/stumblin…

[Fab piece] In Chile, a so-called “emerging economy,” the juxtaposition of first-world astronomy with third-world grievances raises questions about planning, progress, and the distribution of one of humanity’s rarest assets longnow.org/ideas/stumblin… Paul Constance

By the early 02030s, a staggering 70 percent of the world’s entire land-based astronomical data gathering capacity is expected to be concentrated in an swath of Chilean desert about the size of Oregon. hubs.ly/Q02svkKx0

Four generations of Latin American demography wittily compacted into a single IM card.

Professional news: The Institute for Family Studies is launching a new Pronatalism Initiative with me at the helm. The project is initially supported by an Emergent Ventures grant (ht tylercowen ). We're the first and only explicitly pronatal policy shop. ifstudies.org/blog/ifs-launc…

Today in The New York Times Rachel Wiseman and I on why in letting conservative policies and theatrics alienate us from the question of children, we’re only letting the right set our reproductive agendas for us in yet another way. nytimes.com/2024/06/10/opi…

Very pleased that my essay, “The Heresy of Decline,” is included in the inaugural edition of Pace Layers, a new annual print journal from the Long Now Foundation Long Now Foundation. Congratulations to its editor, Ahmed Kabil. Learn more and order a copy here: longnow.org/ideas/pace-lay…

Many thanks to CNN's meena hart duerson for making me sound like a sane liberal in this report on NatalCon. Definitely a strange event, but it convinced me that progressives need better ideas for enabling people to form families and have children.

I recommend this darkly funny report on American pro-natalists by Barclay of The Economist. I'm glad my use of the word "abhorrent" made it into the piece, along with my plea to fellow progressives who are reluctant to acknowledge this issue. economist.com/podcasts/2025/…

Conservative natalism's angry-man problem. natalliberation.substack.com/p/natalisms-an…

"Constance believes that the smart progressive response would be to make “reproductive rights” a more inclusive movement—one that defends both the choice not to have kids and the choice to have as many as you want." Madeleine Kearns in thefp.com/p/how-did-havi…

🚨 ¡Mañana es #WonkComms! ⌚️Jueves 30 de octubre, de 10 a 11:30 💡 Con Yanina Budkin Yanina Budkin (Banco Mundial) y Paul Constance Paul Constance (Sociopúblico) 🎙️Modera Sonia Jalfin sonia jalfin 💚 (Sociopúblico) 📝¡Te esperamos online! → docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Honored to see my essay on the rebirth of Boston's Mystic River in Long Now Foundation's annual journal, Pace Layers. I argue that the multi-generational work of restoring a polluted waterway should be celebrated like the medieval enterprise of building a gothic cathedral. MysticRiverWatershed