> The real fix would be to improve on the conditions that parents need to have children I hear this a lot, but have difficulty squaring that with observational

> The real fix would be to improve on the conditions that parents need to have children I hear this a lot, but have difficulty squaring that with observational evidence: France for instance great employment security but is hovering at similar fertility with the US and UK (1.88 births/woman vs 1.73 US and 1.68 UK). The nordic countries are around the same (1.76 Sweden, 1.41 Finland). Singapore has gone through great lengths to try to raise fertility, having affordable housing and various social programs and government cheerleading, and it's at 1.14. Maybe each of these cases have other factors, and maybe observational evidence is not right way to look at this. Is there other evidence of this path leading to more fertility?