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#555 Karen Kramer: Life History, Parenting, Population Growth, Dipersals, and Mating Systems

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The Relationship Between Economy and Demography

The relationship in economy and demography, i mean, the type of economy that characterizes a given society. So there are certainly demands and incentives to have large families. In traditional hunting and gathering herding agricultural societies, kids are kids help. And so they can just focus on that stuff. When we move to e industrialized societies and we value education, going to school starts to then compete.

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