Challenging conventional wisdom: advances in development reverse fertility declines, says Penn study

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 14:14 in Health & Medicine

PHILADELPHIA -- A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Università Bocconi in Milan have released a study that challenges one of the most established and accepted standards in the social sciences: Human fertility levels tend to decline as countries advance towards high levels of social and economic development.

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