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The cost of children

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An investigation into the causes of the decline in the number of children being born finds that economic motivations are more influential than child mortality or social learning, but also reinforces the relatedness of these factors.

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Figure 1: Fertility in decline.

DAWN NEILL

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  1. *This News & Views article was published online on 12 June 2013.

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Mace, R. The cost of children. Nature 499, 32–33 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12257

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