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I don’t really think this is true. Both Korea and Japan have poor elder social security (and elder poverty rates to match) yet are some of the lowest fertility
by bobthepanda 4y ago
I don’t really think this is true. Both Korea and Japan have poor elder social security (and elder poverty rates to match) yet are some of the lowest fertility countries. China is in a similar position.
- vt85 4y ago[dead]
- notch898a 4y agoCan you explain how I can tease out this multivariate issue to rule out these economic incentives are at play? I think looking at a two dimension "elder social security" and "fertility rate" you are going to see a correlation, but it is confounded by lots of other things including "cost vs personal benefit of raising child", access to contraceptives, education level, etc. I think it would be absolutely wild if you could just look at the numbers for Korea and Japan and just nope out on this one.
- bobthepanda 4y agoIf you want to do deep data analysis, it helps that the OECD collects a lot of data from Japan, South Korea, the US, and the member countries which are all generally developed. I just don't think, that if it is a factor, that it has much impact, given that the worst countries do not have this factor; the child(ren) is still pretty much the extent of the social safety net. Japan is also notable in that they actually give significantly lower social security payments to women, especially unmarried or divorcees.