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Female empowerment is what is listed in the paper and what is generally accepted.

I've typically heard two drivers:

1) children turned from an economic boon/necessity to a sink. They can start helping with farm work pretty early, not quite so much when the industry work, they have to be somewhat older and can't tag along when the parents are working.

2) women could spend their time working and earning money. They could start to support themselves.

We've been able to accelerate this trend by offering access to contraception and decreasing infant mortality.

[Zenbit_UX]

Not just empowerment but education. The higher educated a woman is the more TFR goes down.