The Real Reason Birth Rates Are Falling - Lyman Stone
It highlights that families desire dense single-family housing and safety, while modern norms create a mismatch between women's educational achievements and workplace opportunities, particularly in East Asia.summaryHousing Density vs. Crowding: High population density correlates with low fertility, but the actual mechanism is 'crowded living space' (high adult-to-bedroom ratio), not density itself. Townhouses and dense single-familtakeaway“The number one thing the families want in any neighborhood is safety, order, and cleanliness. Beyond anything else... if you don't get a sense that it's safe, clean, and reasonable for your kid to walk around in the neiquote
