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How about this? https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam.
by yumraj 5y ago
How about this?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
It shows a clear downward trend in number of births as income rises.
- fullstop 5y agoPeople generally earn more after being in the workforce many years. It is no surprise, to me, that older people are having fewer children than young people.
- jeffbee 5y agoSure but that doesn't control for anything. Control, for example, by race or education, place of residence, etc.
- marcusverus 5y agoControlling for cost of living would make sense, but why would you control for race or education?
- jeffbee 5y agoBecause I think you are trying to answer the question of whether giving a specific person more money would cause them to have more or fewer children. You want the marginal fertility associated with a given marginal change in wealth. If you don't control for other factors then you are just taking cultural influences (e.g. that possibly some national origins or races prefer larger families) and multiplying them by the association between that race and wealth (e.g. that some race within a given country is systematically impoverished). So, that would be an invalid analysis without the control.