Tag: demography
It’s happening all over the developed world. Birth rates are falling in China, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and Greece. Things have played out more slowly in the United States, but we seem to continue moving in the same direction. The U.S. fertility rate has been in decline since just before the Great…
In 2016, life expectancy at birth for women in the United States was 81.1, five years longer than that for men. Everywhere in the world, without exception, women live longer than men. However, a recent study by Claudia Goldin and Adriana Lleras-Muney points out that women did not always have a survival advantage. In t…
