Michael Tobis wrote: > How strong is the correlation between wealth and reduced fertility? > Are there wealthy countries with high fertility or poor countries with > low? > > I've never really understood why this is supposed to happen, and why > we are expected to rely on it happening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility#Causes Doesn't suggest that wealth itself is the directly causative agent, but one might expect several of the factors cited to be correlated with wealth. Japan's total fertility rose to 1.31 last year. Yes, _rose_. James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
