NICHOLAS EBERSTADT is Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and Senior Adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research. Eberstadt has served as a consultant to the World Bank and to the U.S. government, including at the State Department, the Agency for International Development, and the President's Council on Bioethics. His books include Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis and Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications.