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Re:Taiwan Is Running Low on a Strategic Asset: Engineers by nashashmi on Thursday May 11, 2023 @03:20PM (#35907071)
Are the birth rates higher among rich people? My impression is that they have fewer children. Historically, More materials and wealth means less children.

Can govt really cause people to have more children? Or can they just remove roadblocks? I would go with the latter. The former is a social problem.

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Re:Taiwan Is Running Low on a Strategic Asset: Engineers by polski-g on Thursday May 11, 2023 @03:48PM (#35907485)
The very rich and very poor have a lot of children. The middle have little.
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Re:Taiwan Is Running Low on a Strategic Asset: Engineers by renewiltord on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:40AM (#35912334)
In the US it depends entirely on whether you're married. Household income goes up? You get more likely to have kids if you're married.

Hard to tease out but here's a start

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/fertili...

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