Ed Dodson responding... Robin Hanson wrote: > One more big puzzle: > 8) Why do people have fewer children as they get richer? > Ed here: My reading on the subject is that financial wealth is not the primary factor. The primary factor is the status of women in society. Women who have an opportunity to achieve education and status outside of the family group tend to have fewer children. In societies where women have a high rate of participation in athletics, in college education, in the professions and in the contribution of earnings to household income, postponement of having children corresponds to marriage at a later age and to mutual decisions between spouses/partners to give priority to goals other than "raising a family." Ironically, in a family where the man's income and the family assets are very high and the woman is not engaged in some professional commitment, having a large number of children may be viewed as desirable or an obligation (e.g., the Kennedys, Rockefellers, etc.).
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