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cpos-172	Ryabov, Igor	On the Relationship between Development and Fertility: The Case of the United States	2015	25	.pdf	application/pdf	9965	446	50	Using cross-sectional analyses of the relation- ship between period Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and selected human development in- dicators (life expectancy at birth for males and females, median income per capita, the share of population below the poverty line, the shares of adults without a high school diploma and with bachelor’s degree or higher), the present study explores the link between human fertility and development in the U.S. Our choice of human development indicators is based on an exploratory factor analysis which allowed us to identify the most relevant predictors of period fertil- ity at the county level. Among the industrialized countries, the United States is characterized not only by relatively high human development, but also by high period fertility, especially in contrast to the sub-replacement fertility patterns of Europe (see Table 1).	cache/cpos-172.pdf	txt/cpos-172.txt