Practice question · Select all that apply
What actually drives fertility decline?
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- The drivers all concern the cost and value of a child.
- The technology usually arrives after the decline is under way.
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- B. Children becoming expensive through schooling and the end of child labour
- C. Falling child mortality, you no longer need six to keep three
- D. Women’s education and options
Why
All about the value of a child. Contraceptive technology usually arrives after the decline is under way, a fact fatal to a great many confident theories about it.
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