When people in Vaucluse have more children than those in Bouches-du-Rhône

Dialogues économiques
APRIL 13, 2021
Departments in France with the same socio-economic and historical conditions nevertheless present different fertility rates. Paolo Melindi-Ghidi and Thomas Seegmuller explain these surprising results by introducing a new hypothesis called “love for children”.
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