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Joy Buchanan's avatar

I don't think that an exclusive focus on women who can afford to do IVF and also who choose to do it is sensible. Most babies are going to be born without IVF for a long time. Is this paper trying to claim that there is on motherhood penalty for anyone?

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tup99's avatar

"If fertility is falling even though mothers don’t have to sacrifice returns from their career, then economics is not the main motivator of that trend."

This doesn't make sense.

The conventional wisdom was (and probably still is) that there *is* a motherhood penalty. There's no reason to think that these actually women know whether or not they'll have to sacrifice returns from their career, right? So that statement is incorrect.

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