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Can 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
by notch898a 4y ago
Can 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.