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Economist @bruegel.org | Europe beyond the EU, productivity, FDI, innovation
![Figure shows authors’ calculations based on data from country-specific age-specific fertility rates available from the Human Fertility Database (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research [Germany] and Vienna Institute of Demography [Austria]. It shows that rising childlessness across recent cohorts of women.
Low fertility rates in high-income countries defy traditional explanations based on a quality/quantity trade-off in the demand for children and the opportunity cost of women’s time. Analysing fertility in Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the US, this column argues that fertility decisions also depend on the range of socially accepted lifestyle and consumption options and on norms surrounding work, parenting, gender roles, and leisure. Reversing the low-fertility trend will require significant societal changes that make parenthood more compatible with modern adult life.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m4aseqqn3qbqs2h4o75cbovw/bafkreieg4rzar4wqv7d2s2nuxns6thphinv7dx57ypkkkbhl4mbm7jjz3q)
