It is probably not fertility that is falling, but incentive. Birth rates are cyclic. When time & circumstances change, so will births. It has always been this way. There is no reason to worry about it. If that’s a problem for the economy, then the economy’s the problem. Fix that.
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The long term trend is consistently down.
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No, it isn’t. Only the short term trend. About one generation.
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No, the long term down trend is called the "demographic transition". Its been going on for centuries.
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Which country are you referring to? I know of no country where the pupulation has declined by natural causes, disease or drought before WW2. The decline and aging of populations is a very recent phenomenon, correlating inversely with the economy.
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Housing is too expensive. My wife and I were looking at a 3br condo for $760 grand yesterday (not in Manhattan or Silicon Valley). How can a couple in their 20s afford anything like it?
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Move to the Midwest. I live like a king for $500k
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No king would live in Midwest. The French built Versailles near Paris, not near Cheyenne
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Robin your friend
@bryan_caplan would remind you that a contributing factor may be increasing education signaling keeping women in school longer.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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assume that our species has a built-in population control related to our psychology and our endocrinology, which is only triggered when a certain condition persists, what sort of condition might persist to make it so, if the result leads to us breeding less, not dying more
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Environmental endocrine disrupters
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The following at least is good news: "Cities have lower fertility than rural"
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