Re:Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than c...
by pessimizer on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:21AM
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Poverty can probably actually lower birth rates by forcing women into the workforce. If a parent is at home, the marginal cost is a lot lower for another child than it is if people are paying for childcare.
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Re:Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than c...
by bildung on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:52AM
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Direct correlation of female workforce participation and poverty shows no trend: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/female-labor-force-partic...
The macro trend of poverty <> birth rates points in the opposite direction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
Data points on the very poor end are all over the place, though.
The high workforce participation -> low birth rate correlation is definitely visible over time: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fertility-and-female-labo...