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America has seen increasing diversity and declining birth rates for a long time. Racial minorities made up about 10% of the population in 1950 but account for more than 40% today; the total fertility rate was 3.7 kids per woman in 1960, around 2.1 in 2007, and is about 1.7 today. A viral new academic working paper by Umit G. Gurun and David H. Solomon argues the two trends may be linked: Perhaps rising diversity is a reason that birth rates are declining. Read More
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