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Why are birth rates plummeting? And how much does it matter? (with Malcolm & Simone Collins)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Role of Modernity in Birth Rates

Poverty and belief in that women shouldn't be educated equally to men are both correlated with high birth rates. But modernity tends to lower birth rates as it spreads around the world, he says. "We're saying that if you think of like modernity as being like an antibiotic ... those population groups have had more exposure to that antibiotic over a longer period of history"

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