@sebjenseb Fertility is probably heavily influenced by how pro-natalist is culture around you. Even if you live in big family, you won't have many children unless your peers consider it "high status". Correlations of parents x children are small: https:/
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@von_Gneisenau @phl43 Like most behavioral traits, I suspect some genetic influence, but there are conflicting studies and cultural influences are hard to factor. Here's one: https://t.co/8ZjHEghU5C(Kohler%20et%20al.
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RT @PopulationEU: Paper in Demography shows: As family size was converging towards two-child families during the 20th century, one’s number…
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Paper in Demography shows: As family size was converging towards two-child families during the 20th century, one’s number of children was becoming less related to the size of their family of origin, even for very small and large families @SpringerSocSci ht