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by 0xDEAFBEAD 1003 days ago
It's not necessarily that simple though. Maybe if you have an unplanned child early, you realize that thing about the cost-benefit analysis being bad, stop having kids, and reproduce at below replacement.

Here is one paper I found on correlates of reproductive success in the US, from 2005 though: https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/48563240/Sex_Status_an...