Demographic Dividend Debunked? Education, Not Birth Control, Is Key For Economic Development

Economists and sociologists have long insisted that abortion and birth control lead to economic growth and a new paper  in the journal Demography says it's instead education. All of those are correlated so there is no wrong answer. More economically developed, educated nations suffer population declines to such an extent they have to recruit immigrants to work and pay taxes to support an elderly population that doesn't replace itself. But spending billions of dollars on education rather than birth control would not be the answer - food and energy are. With the ability to grow food and meet basic needs, wealth and culture always flourish and that leads to education which leads to growth. read more

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