Reducing female education, making society poorer, or increasing infant mortality would reduce opportunity costs and increase fertility, but these would be catastrophic solutions and not acceptable responses to fertility decline
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Unidentified Speaker — Population Decline Is Worse Than You Think | Prof. Dean Spe… [-WijWqFnqHg]Evidence Quote
“if I was super villain and I wanted more babies I reduce female education. I make us poorer and we have more baby and I increase infant mortality and we have more babies. Terrible answer. Let's not do that.”
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