On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:04:27PM -0400, Robert A. Book wrote:
[...] The point
I was tryign to make is that it's possible for a dictatorship to
depress child-rearing opportunities less than other opportunities,
thus making child-rearing relatively more attractive.
Why do you think
I'm curious if anyone is aware of an instance, where a conscious,
explicit choice was made in government policy to choose higher total GDP
over higher per capita GDP, or vice versa.
It seems to me that most any policy restricting immigration is choosing to
maximize per capita GDP over total GDP
wonder if
that shows a better correlation with fertility than government form.
--
Susan Hogarth
If we cannot adjust our differences peacefully we are less than human.
- F. Herbert
But in a dictatorship, while my
child-rearing opportunities suffer, my business opportunities suffer
even more.
But what if you live under a capitalist dicatator, like Chile's General
Pinochet or South Korea's General Park [is this name right?]?
If my understanding is correct, in a
According to a recent article [1] in Harvard International Review, because
of differences in fertility, the population growth rate in dictatorships
is higher than that in democracies at every income level. It says an
average woman has one-half of a child more under dictatorship than under
1. Why is fertility higher in dictatorships? Do dictators like bigger
populations, and democrats like smaller populations? Does population
growth influence choice of government? Or is there a third factor that
affects both fertility and form of government?
The question should be: what causes
In a message dated 7/14/03 6:45:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. Why is fertility higher in dictatorships? Do dictators like bigger
populations, and democrats like smaller populations? Does population
growth influence choice of government? Or is there a third factor that
affects both
of government and
population growth are correlated.
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From: Wei Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 17:49 PM
Subject: fertility and government
According to a recent article [1] in Harvard International Review, because
of differences
On 2003-07-14, Wei Dai uttered:
1. Why is fertility higher in dictatorships? Do dictators like bigger
populations, and democrats like smaller populations?
Maybe they're poorer in aggregate? I mean, sustenance-level poverty is one
of the prime causal precedents of high fertility, and most
A few people seem to have skipped over the first sentence of my post.
The article said that fertility rate is higher in dictatorships than in
democracies at *all income levels*. Meaning if you take any income level
and compare dictatorships and democracies in the same level, the
dictatorships
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