The recent intense conversations around inequality and poverty reminded me of a similarly complex issue that Singapore has discussed extensively: fertility. Are there lessons to draw from the experience of those discussions?
Between 2003 and 2013, much of my research was on Singapore's family policies. I published academic articles and newspaper commentaries about fertility patterns and public policy. I posed this puzzle: Singaporeans have fewer children than they would like to; why?
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