Low birth rates can actually pay off in the US and other countries, study shows
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
As birth rates decline in countries that include parts of Europe and East Asia, threatening the economic slowdown associated with aging populations, a global study from the University of California, Berkeley, and the East-West Center in Hawaii suggests that in much of the world, it actually pays to have fewer children. The results challenge previous assumptions about population growth.