ZenRand
1yr ago
"Svenskar äro vi inte längre, ryssar vilja vi inte bli, låt oss alltså bli finnar." We are no longer swedes, we don't want to be Russian, thus let us be finns.
ZenRand
1yr ago
Not to relatively small monetary incentives. Nor would I think that anyone espousing Scandinavian parental policies saying it would primarily benefit the rich.
ZenRand
1yr ago
A little today I learned about fertility and income:
Within western countries fertility is inversely related to income, that is poor people have more kids. At least that’s what I’ve thought and it is apparently the case in the USA: https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/
However, in my native land where you have 18 months paid parental leave, daycare costs about 150 dollars/month and the government literally pays you 100 dollars/month/kid (barnbidrag) there is a strong positive correlation between fertility and income: https://imgur.com/a/RBFrBZ2
This has also been the case for some time: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00324728.2022.2134578
And also a positive correlation with IQ: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0359
So in the country where it’s cheap to have kids, high income people have more kids and where it’s expensive they have fewer kids. This is surprising.
That poorer people have more children is not true for all countries. Among Swedish woman the correlation between income and fertility is positive at all levels. I believe the situation is similar in the other nordic countries.
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