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In Korea, income is positively correlated with fertility. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol44/39/44-39.pdf https://www.demographic-research.org/
by flerovium 4y ago
In Korea, income is positively correlated with fertility.
https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol44/39/44-39.pdf https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol44/39/44-39....
In the West, it was historically (1900-2000) the opposite.
In fact, the fertility of the rich is similar between regions. The difference is that in Korea, the less advantaged have many fewer children.
Understanding this goes a long way toward understanding "Why don't they fix this?" For some, there is no problem.