摘要
Few people realize that a declining birth rate might not ever go up again. Data from contemporary countries--be them developed or developing--show that when the birth rate goes down, policies enacted to increase it have a limited impact. Why？ Because a declining birth rate creates a high-end, luxury market for parents raising children. Luxury doesn＇t just refer to how much money a family spends, but also the time and energy they are expected to devote to child rearing. No matter how much the gov- ernment encourages families to have more children, the luxury market already created will keep the policies from being effective.
High-end education and child bearing make it hard for China’s birth rate to grow Few people realize that a declining birth rate might not ever go up again Data from contemporary countries—be them developed or developing—show that when the birth rate goes down,policies enacted to increase it have a limited impact Why?Because a declining birth rate
