Booms, busts and babies: how house prices affect the birth rate

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The fortunes of the property market influence the timing of births

The ups and downs of house prices are always in the headlines. But the profound ways those property market movements affect our everyday behaviour get far less attention.

The way economists think about it, children are a bit like goods we value. The more wealth we have, the more children we can afford. show many are anxious about balancing house ownership with other big life choices including having children. During the past three decades the fertility rate among women aged 35-39 has more than doubled and for those aged 40-44 it has tripled.Twenty years ago women aged 25-29 years had the highest birth rate. That has now moved to the 30-34 age group and the median birth age for Australian women continues to climb.

But that does not necessarily mean a lower overall birth rate because many women who put off having children during their 20s are playing catch-up during their 30s.

 

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Good work ANGLIhere!

A home is the largest and most expensive asset to own, at the rate of knots prices are escalating its no wonder birth rates will fall. In a average family both partners have to work , not to sustain a lifestyle but to be able to keep afloat to pay the day to day bills..

Create a computer model and feed in selected data, fudge it ever so slightly here and there, and behold, ‘researchers’ and ‘scientists’ can show whatever trend their financial controllers desire. Keeps the news media pumping away without even having to leave their desk.

But not if you’re s refugee and are paid per child!!

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