Re:The global fertility rate is falling
by bananaface on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:36AM
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Well, the relationship holds at every level. It's true within and across societies. It doesn't matter if we're talking locally rich or globally rich.
I'm skeptical of local explanations because the relationship is so universal.
Are we talking locally rich or globally rich?
People in industrialized (rich) nations don't have tons of kids because that's not how you get ahead in that kind of economy. Subsistence farmers have tons of kids because that's how they get ahead economically.
Within richer nations richer people have fewer kids because the way social safety nets and social expectations of how one should raise one's kids make kids more expensive the higher up you go.