Me on Twitter, My New Book on Amazon

I still think "less work and more fun" should be highlighted rather than "than you think." But I do like the colors.

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Will I be able to by this in the Kindle store? Im swedish and regular mail is slow and so 20-century.

The literature on happiness shows that there is either no correllation between happiness and children or a mild negative correllation. Caplan knows this and has posted about this in the past, so I shake my head at him writing a book arguing having kids is less burdensome than the data shows.

The most compelling reason to think children are burdensome is that as countries get wealthy enough to have developed financial markets and old-age social welfare programs they have less kids. That suggests a big reason people have kids is a way to save for old-age, and many people don't think they are such a good deal.

I hope there will be a kindle edition as well.

The literature on happiness shows that there is either no correllation between happiness and children or a mild negative correllation. Caplan knows this and has posted about this in the past, so I shake my head at him writing a book arguing having kids is less burdensome than the data shows.

He's also posted on the reason he thinks there's no correlation between kids and happiness. Namely, that parents today work too hard and waste all their time and money on overparenting. I believe his book will make the logical argument that parents would be happier if they placed more focus on having fun with their kids and less on overparenting.

http://twitter.com/#%21/bryan_caplan

didn't work for me either.

http://twitter.com/bryan_caplan

did work.

Any plans for an audio book?

Congrats!

Hmmm, what does Mrs. Caplan have to say about the hints being dropped with this book?

Well, whatever the case, dad dispensed a fine piece of advice for parents via Twitter on the 29th of January:

"Making your kid learn an instrument because you love music is like making your kid become a stuntman because you love action movies."

I agree with Zac. But having "less work and more fun" emphasized, sandwiched in between two less important lines, might look really bad. And the "Than you think" highlights the well researched bias-smashing inside the book. :)

The font for the main title is awesome - reminds me of twisty balloons.