The Causal Story of East Asian Fertility

Korean women in the US have about the same fertility as Korean women in Korea, which really ix-nays the idea that this is just about like Korean economic institutions. K-pop is actually a really huge cultural factor and it is systematically almost contractually childless and single. To the extent that K-pop stars advertise their lifestyle, it's about conspicuous consumption, travel, purely self-discipline. And as a result, it creates a norm of childlessness, singleness.