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The Power of Demography, with Paul Morland

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Is There a Relationship Between High Income and Low Fertility in East Asia?

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There's a correlation, in east asia, as elsewhere, between high incomen and low fertility. No part of the world has been more historically overcrowded full of people than china and other parts of southeast asia. In these society they were living at the edge of malthusian constraint for much of history. Infanticide was very common in china, in the ten as, late as the twenties. And you just have to look at the casualties and serio verses versus ucrae, the numbers are pretty disproportionate.Andand that goes out osa lot longer, of course.

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