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The Bank of Korea has analyzed that the concentration of young people in the Seoul metropolitan area is a key cause of the declining birth rate and undermined growth potential. [The Hankyoreh, 3 [...]

Some people predicted there would be a mini baby boom among millennials once the financial crisis of 2008-2009 was over. Some predicted a boom during the pandemic lockdowns. Some predicted a boom [...]

Association of labor market outcomes and family policies with fertility trends between 2002 and 2019 in 26 OECD countries. [Jonas Fluchtmann, Violetta van Veen and Willem Adema – OECD, 21 [...]

The ideal number of children is lower among more recent than earlier birth cohorts and this shift is driven by substantially higher child-free ideals among recent cohorts.  [Kateryna [...]

Decades of a one-child policy led to a 4-2-1 problem, in which a sole young adult must become the breadwinner for not only his two parents but also his four grandparents. [Chad de Guzman – [...]

While we should enact affordable child care and parental-leave policies because they’re good for society, we should be under no illusions that they will change that trajectory — we will need [...]

Housing has become unaffordable for most young people in large cities amid the sluggish economic recovery, with 11.58 million college graduates set to enter China’s workforce this year. [Meredith [...]

Japan lost 800,000 people last year, with deaths outpacing births at a record rate. The government has plans to reverse this trend but many fear its efforts will fail. [Julian Ryall – DW, 3 [...]

While population growth implies almost by definition higher emissions, at least in the short term, the intrinsic inertia in demographic processes implies that solutions to reduce emissions need [...]

This paper adapts a method of decomposition of completed cohort fertility that specifically includes the timing of first birth. Such an approach enhances the understanding of changes in cohort [...]