2 ms·
There are several factors that operate successively and in combination to reduce fertility: infant survival (low infant mortality); secularisation (loss of rel
by tuatoru 2y ago
There are several factors that operate successively and in combination to reduce fertility: infant survival (low infant mortality); secularisation (loss of religion); urbanisation (or more accurately neolocality, the practice of moving away from family at the time of marriage); education, particularly of women; and stronger government (stability and military defence, universal application of the law, protection of property rights (perhaps counterintuitively)).
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoIMO urbanization broadly includes secularization (consumer culture), education (needed for urban jobs), education/empowerment of women working (two jobs to survive rather than one, women work to survive in cities rather than stay in extended family homes) But of course you are correct. Urbanization is responsible for the largest population migrations and geographic redistributions of the last century. I consider it the major factor in the demographic birth rate declines.