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3 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism
“If we think about Catholics and Protestants in the United States, it’s striking how much the fertility gap has closed.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 3 Jul 2019
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…[laughs] That they will show? Well, they’re very good at reading the signs. It could be what clothing color you’re wearing. They might ask innocuous questions like, “Which school did you go to?” And if it starts with a “Saint,” you know that’s Catholic. These are the signs that they pick up on. If we think about Catholics and Protestants in the United States, it’s striking how much the fertility gap has closed. Why has that happened? Well, what happened is, the Protestants went through the demographic transition first in Northern Ireland, 80 years before the Catholics did. But then the Catholics entered into that, so they started reducing their fertility. By 1980 in the US, the two fertility rates were pretty much identical. This is just a convergence as groups enter into the mature phase of demographic transition, but some groups are lagging a little bit behind.…
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