Wednesday, November 27, 2013

The Dead’s Envy for the Living

Literacy (and female literacy in particular) is the best predictor of fertility in Muslim countries: the best educated among them, namely Tunisia, Algeria, and Turkey, also have fallen below replacement fertility. Iran’s fertility fell the fastest in part because the deposed shah set in motion a crash literacy program.

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/11/26/the-deads-envy-for-the-living/?singlepage=true

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