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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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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Population Decline Is Worse Than You Think | Prof. Dean SpearsWin-Win with Liv Boeree
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:29:23 AM

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