Thank you. It's depressing how nobody here is observing the obvious, uncontrolled co-variate in this "analysis": per-capita income: https://www.stlouisfed.org/

Thank you. It's depressing how nobody here is observing the obvious, uncontrolled co-variate in this "analysis": per-capita income: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/link-fertility-income https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/link... Correlation vs cause is no problem for HN if the correlation in question confirms a bias!