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Correlation Between Declining Birth Rates and Increases in Income

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This has been seen in many areas. In 1982 a study undertaken in the United States over fourteen different areas showed that there was a correlations between declining birth-rates,  increasing incomes, as well as an increased number of single people (Page, 1982). If we look at general population theories this appears  to be against some of the ideas. In order to consider if any of the models can explain this trend we need to look at some of the more basic  ideas that have been expounded regarding population growth. Thomas Malthus was a major contributor to this economic field, he published An Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798. Malthus  looked to two factors as the overriding principle in the reproduction of man as determined by the forces of nature;" First, That food is necessary to the existence of man.  Secondly, That the passion between the sexes is necessary and will remain nearly in its present state" (Malthus, 1798). According to this we  would have to argue that increased income mean that there is an ability to increase the food supply, and as a result we would expect to find population increases, not  decreases. These theories were very significant as over two hundred years later they are still considered valid as arguments and perspectives on the population explosion that he may have envisage  if his theories were to be proven true. Additionally the have also gone on to influence others such as his friend David Ricardo (NPG, 2000). The essays themselves were interpreted  by many readers to be opposing social reforms (Cocy, 2000)and later in the mid nineteenth century the neo-Malthusianism emerged, a movement that advocated birth control for the poor (NPG, 2000).