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The article compares data from 1990 and 2020, yet doesn’t mention covid as a confounding variable (while talking a lot about housing). I think the more telling
by csa 4y ago
The article compares data from 1990 and 2020, yet doesn’t mention covid as a confounding variable (while talking a lot about housing).
I think the more telling numbers will be over the next few years. Will there be a post-covid bump and then normalize back to pre-covid levels? Will things just stay the same with incredibly low covid-level birth rates?
Only time will tell, but this article is sloppy. The economist can do better.
- mvnuweucxqokii 4y agoIn some places (i.e. the U.S. iirc), COVID actually caused a mild baby boom rather than suppressing childbirths.
- csa 4y ago> In some places (i.e. the U.S. iirc), COVID actually caused a mild baby boom rather than suppressing childbirths. Sure. But the response to covid in the US and the response to covid in the Asian countries mentioned was quite different both in an administrative way as well as a cultural way. Covid was at least worth a mention if not more.
- glandium 4y agoCovid really started in March. Most births that happened in 2020 were conceived before that.
- cjblomqvist 4y ago"Nor is this a temporary blip caused by the pandemic: Japan’s figure was higher than all those countries in 2019, too."
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