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can you cite this claim? i would be interested to learn more about the relation between the education of woman and lowering birth rates.
by mtnGoat 5y ago
can you cite this claim? i would be interested to learn more about the relation between the education of woman and lowering birth rates.
- inglor_cz 5y agoNot the user you are reacting to, but the correlation of education with total fertility seems to be pretty strong across the world. https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/228/pdfs/female-education-and-its-impact-on-fertility.pdf https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/228/pdfs/female-educati... It seems that the gap in fertility between the "no education" and "8 years of basic education" cohorts is extra pronounced.
- mtnGoat 5y agoperfect, thank you.
- watwut 5y agoBasically, women who are educated and have enough power to plan the amount of kids have less of them. Women who dont get to make those decisions have more of them.