Even a $14,000 Government Handout Can’t Get South Korea’s Singles to Marry
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/singles-dating-marriage-fertility-birthrate-south-korea-bdb40c7b
State-sponsored dating has become a phenomenon in a country with rock-bottom fertility rates; ‘I don’t want my parents to find out’.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/singles-dating-marriage-fertility-birthrate-south-korea-bdb40c7b
State-sponsored dating has become a phenomenon in a country with rock-bottom fertility rates; ‘I don’t want my parents to find out’.
Why solving the baby bust is so difficult
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/10/baby-bust-policy-failure-europe/
No motherhood medal or baby bonus will fix what economic modernization (and closed borders) broke.
Economic Growth, Cultural Traditions, and Declining Fertility
https://www.nber.org/digest/202504/economic-growth-cultural-traditions-and-declining-fertility
Babies and the Macroeconomy
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33311
Related:
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.36.1.151
https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Policy_responses_low_fertility_UNFPA_WP_Final_corrections_7Feb2020_CLEAN.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/10/baby-bust-policy-failure-europe/
No motherhood medal or baby bonus will fix what economic modernization (and closed borders) broke.
https://www.nber.org/digest/202504/economic-growth-cultural-traditions-and-declining-fertility
Babies and the Macroeconomy
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33311
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.36.1.151
https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Policy_responses_low_fertility_UNFPA_WP_Final_corrections_7Feb2020_CLEAN.pdf