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>Issue is we don’t know what is causal. Is it really true that this is not known? Although I only claimed correlation (and am thus surprised that I was downvot
by akoboldfrying 1y ago
>Issue is we don’t know what is causal.
Is it really true that this is not known? Although I only claimed correlation (and am thus surprised that I was downvoted twice, as that claim is obviously true), based on the famous "robustness" of this observation, I strongly suspect that confounding factors like those you mention have already been analysed to death, and found not to eliminate the explanatory power of women's education.
At least, checking these confounders seems an obviously valuable and interesting avenue to explore. If it hasn't been done yet, I wonder what social scientists are doing instead.
- otabdeveloper4 1y ago> I strongly suspect that confounding factors like those you mention have already been analysed to death I doubt it, because the xUSSR is an obvious counterexample. Access to condoms is probably a bigger factor.
- akoboldfrying 11mo agoI agree that access to birth control is a strong factor and likely heavily confounded with women's education. I think there will have been examples of women's education but lack of birth control (e.g., predominantly Catholic nations, especially early on), not sure if there are many examples in the other direction though. Unfamiliar with USSR -- is the birth rate high there despite lots of educated women?