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Dean Spears
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“In no case is there evidence that more support for parents predicts more births. Not for parental leave, not for preschool enrollment, not for preschool or childcare affordability. Of nineteen countries where childcare is less costly than in the United States (after subsidies), fifteen have lower birth rates and the sixteenth, Sweden, matches the United States. All of the countries in this database have more paid, job-protected maternity leave than the United States, which offers no paid leave at all as a matter of national law. But of these twenty-two countries, each with better maternity leave, all but three have lower birth rates than the United States.”
― After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
― After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
“Global average exposure to particulate air pollution has fallen sharply since 2015. All the while, the world added over 750 million people.”
― After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
― After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
“It’s easier for younger people to get pregnant than older people, but the trend is to start having families later. No country in any year has ever had a birth rate as high as 2.0 if the average first-time mom gave birth after turning thirty. No U.S. state or Indian state has, either. So on top of the trend toward wanting fewer children, there’s the reinforcing trend toward starting childbearing later, and perhaps ending up with fewer children than parents hope for.”
― After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
― After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
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