Source? All data I can find indicates the opposite. The wealthier a cohort, the lower their fertility rate. In the U.S., for example, the wealthiest have the fewest kids and the poorest have the most.
Look at Sweden for example (purple in the first graph, blue-yellow in the second). You have this minimum in income inequality in 1990 and a maximum in total fertility rate at the same time. Then, inequality reaches a maximum and plateaus there from 1995-2000, which is exactly where the fertility rate reaches its minimum with a pleateu. Then from 2000-2005 there’s a minimum in inequality immediatly accompanied with a maximum in fertility again.
Source? All data I can find indicates the opposite. The wealthier a cohort, the lower their fertility rate. In the U.S., for example, the wealthiest have the fewest kids and the poorest have the most.
Well here’s the Personal income inequality in the Nordics for example, and look what happened to the Total fertility rate in the Nordic countries.
Look at Sweden for example (purple in the first graph, blue-yellow in the second). You have this minimum in income inequality in 1990 and a maximum in total fertility rate at the same time. Then, inequality reaches a maximum and plateaus there from 1995-2000, which is exactly where the fertility rate reaches its minimum with a pleateu. Then from 2000-2005 there’s a minimum in inequality immediatly accompanied with a maximum in fertility again.