Comments by "disgruntledtoons" (@disgruntledtoons) on "Why Are East Asian Birth Rates So Low?" video.

  1. The most consistent trend seen everywhere is that fertility varies inversely with the participation rate of women in the workforce. When women buy into the idea of having a career, or when governments encourage women to work in lieu of having children, they delay having children, and often find that they have waited too long, and their participation in the labor force increases the supply of labor and thereby depresses wages, reducing the benefit of the second income. When women choose a home life raising children over careers, it frees them to raise the children, and also reduces the supply of labor, causing wages to rise and making it more likely that the husband can support the family.
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