The way I think about it, and this might be over-simplified, is that higher relative wealth tends to lower time preferences, and that crowds out high time preference things -- which having children is.

I know these correlations exist. But I don't have a deep understanding of the subject. I am interested in it, though.

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I was once chided by a West African colleague for failing to recognize how much economic value 6 kids would bring me in 20 years.

FTR I do not have 6 kids. And I don’t think he had (yet) either.

Yeah. This sort of thinking also rears its head in sex preference for children -- where male children are seen as better economically for the family.

πŸ˜…πŸ˜…πŸ˜… sheesh