While I obviously agree with you, this tangentially raises a separate point. You would have expected that countries where housing is expensive relative to incomes would see bigger drops in fertility … (View Post)

Can I click "Thank you for the informative reply, I learned something"? Because clickling "like" seems inappropriate. (View Post)

Yes. But if we'd been having this conversation in 2010, you'd have said* "every country in Africa has birthrates well above replacement". Now, in 2025, it's "most countr… (View Post)

I always find it ironic that those people who are most opposed to abortion, also seem to be most opposed to the government spending money on things that would support low income parents, like subsidi… (View Post)

There have been plenty of academic studies that show that the clearest correlation is between women's education and birth rates. And, of course, countries that don't educate their women, do… (View Post)