As Europe’s population ages, understanding the causes of declining birth rates becomes more important.
By ANDREW DUNNE
When demography expert Daniele Vignoli asked young couples for their thoughts about having children, a theme emerged: uncertainty about the future.In an experiment that Vignoli conducted in Italy and Norway in 2019, he showed a total of 800 couples in their 20s and 30s newspaper headlines about the economy. His aim was to explore how negative media coverage might be affecting people’s choices about when, or whether, to have a baby. Vanishing youth Some of the 1 600 participants told him that their […]
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