{"id":48946,"date":"2025-01-30T11:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/?p=48946"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:08:54","slug":"professor-frances-woolleys-research-on-canadian-fertility-rates-featured-in-the-globe-and-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/2025\/professor-frances-woolleys-research-on-canadian-fertility-rates-featured-in-the-globe-and-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Frances Woolley&#8217;s Research on Canadian Fertility Rates Featured in the Globe and Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Frances Woolley&#8217;s Research on Canadian Fertility Rates Featured in the Globe and Mail\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Professor Frances Woolley\u2019s research on fertility rates in Canada has been recently featured in the Globe and Mail. In the section \u201c<em>Baby bust? Meh<\/em>\u201d, Professor Woolley details the long term decline in Canada\u2019s fertility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an excerpt of the piece:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPerhaps it is time to accept that many people today are childless by choice, and learn to live with it. Instead of bemoaning the lack of young workers, we need to do more to accommodate older ones, with more flexible hiring policies and simple accommodations such as seats for supermarket cashiers. And customers might have to accept that even though your latte is steaming hot, your barista may not be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The piece is behind a paywall, but can be accessed on the Globe and Mail website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-decoding-2025-policy\/?intcmp=gift_share\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Frances Woolley\u2019s research on fertility rates in Canada has been recently featured in the Globe and Mail. In the section \u201cBaby bust? Meh\u201d, Professor Woolley details the long term decline in Canada\u2019s fertility. Here is an excerpt of the piece: \u201cPerhaps it is time to accept that many people today are childless by choice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48947,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48946\/revisions\/48947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}