Economic worries are prompting young Europeans to delay or forgo parenthood. Credit: © Harbucks, Shutterstock.com As Europe’s population ages, understanding the causes of declining birth rates becomes more important.
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. […]
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