Nicholas Eberstadt is a political economist, demographer, American Enterprise Institute scholar, and an author. More than 7 million prime working age men in America are not looking for work, and each year that number continues to grow. Given that unemployment is at a massive low, why are so many capable men checking ou

Over six million prime-age men are neither working nor looking for work; America's low unemployment rate hides the fact that many men have dropped out of the workforce altogether. Our workforce participation rate is on par with that seen during the Great Depression. Why does this problem affect men so acutely? Why is i

On this episode, Ben sits down with the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, Nicholas Eberstadt to discuss the new, post-pandemic edition of his book Men Without Work. Initially written in 2016, Eberstadt explains the economic dynamics behind the large number of prime working-age

The American Enterprise Institute's Nicholas Eberstadt talks about Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition.

Nicholas Eberstadt, AEI’s Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, makes an overdue Remnant return to discuss his new book, Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition, an expanded version of his 2016 release which examined the collapse of work for men in modern America. Why are increasingly large numbers of men abandoning

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Nicholas Eberstadt, who holds the Henry Wendt chair in political economy at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky for a conversation about national staffing shortages and why high numbers of "prime working-age" American men are n