Tag: women
The brief’s key findings are: The record low U.S. fertility rate is raising concerns about future population prospects. Will it bounce back? Many see hope in the “expectations” data. Although today’s women in their 30s have had only 1.3 children, in their early 20s they expected to have more than two. Will they catch up?…
For most of the 20th century, life expectancy was on the rise. Yet older Americans were retiring at younger and younger ages. That changed in the 1990s. Life expectancy continued to rise, but retirement ages started increasing too. Many significant developments are behind the dramatic shift in retirement habits, including the decline of private-sector pensions,…
