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Baby booms and busts: how population growth spurts affect the economy

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imageDoes a boom in babies give the economy a boost or cause a bust?Baby money via www.shutterstock.com

A baby boom is generally considered to be a sustained increase and then decrease in the birth rate. The United States, the UK and other industrialized economies have experienced only one such baby boom since 1900 – the...

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