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SUBMITTER: Anderson T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4038909 | biostudies-other | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Anderson Thomas T Kohler Hans-Peter HP
Asian population studies 20130501 2
Fertility throughout East Asia has fallen rapidly over the last five decades and is now below the replacement rate of 2.1 in every country in the region. Using South Korea as a case study, we argue that East Asia's ultra-low fertility rates can be partially explained by the steadfast parental drive to have competitive and successful children. Parents throughout the region invest large amounts of time and money to ensure that their children are able to enter prestigious universities and obtain to ...[more]