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Lead author of the study Kenji Itao told Newsweek what many governments may be overlooking about low birth rates.

Two universal pathways in demographic transition - Volume 8

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Sustainable resource use in large societies requires social institutions that specify acceptable behavior and punish violators. Because mutual monitoring becomes prohibitively costly as populations gr...

Social institutions are systems of shared norms and rules that regulate people’s behaviors, often emerging without external enforcement. They provi...

Social institutions are systems of shared norms and rules that regulate people’s behaviors, often emerging without external enforcement. They provi...