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Just a thought that due to global lockdowns there could be a slowing of house formations as people that would have met each other didn't meet each other for 2 years (zoom dates aside). I wonder would this connection lag be material in delaying your thesis?

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Crisis? What crisis?

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are you not possibly cherry picking Denmark, a population with 6 mio with the most favorable gender policies in the world (day care etc) and arguably most adherent social norms. DK also starts from a much higher reproduction rate of 1.77.

South Korea 1.10; Singapore 1.15; Japan 1.38 are descending towards extinction in a few generations. They have all tried various policies for decades but have been unable to reverse the trajectory.

The fact is that the tradeoff between a professional career at Goldman sachs or a law firm without children and children with a compromised career is a bum deal for talented women in most parts of the world for educated women.

What makes you so confident that DK is the new normal rather than the extreme exception ?

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