[ExI] Planetary defense

[Anders Sandberg]

Keith Henson wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
>   
>> Female education. Decreases the birth rate
>>     
>
> Probably.  Association is not causal though.  It would be interesting
> to understand this better.
>   

Lots of papers in the demographics and developement literature. Overall, 
people seem to be fairly convinced that it is causal.

http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/aer.101.1.158
http://www.crei.cat/conferences/Iae/Francesco_Cinnirella.pdf
http://www3.pids.gov.ph/popn_pub/full_papers/Female%20educ%20FP%20and%20fertility.pdf
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Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University