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The Research on Factors Influencing the Fertility Rate-Take the United States as an Example
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Abstract
This study examines the impact of different education levels of parents, income, and housing prices on the number of births in various states in the United States from 2016 to 2021. The data was collected from Kaggle on the number of births and education levels, the historical housing price data from Zillow, and the average income data from Federal Reserve Economics Data (FRED). The number of births was used as the response variable, while average income, housing price, and education level were set as the explanatory variables. The article will apply a multiple linear regression model to analyze the data, and this paper also considers the interaction effect between income and the prices of housing by adding an interaction term in the model. The major findings indicate that housing prices and people with less than a high school education have little or no impact on fertility rates, while higher education levels and income show a strong correlation with fertility.
Keywords
Fertility rate, education level, multiple linear regression, interaction effect, socioeconomic factors
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Gao,Y. (2025). The Research on Factors Influencing the Fertility Rate-Take the United States as an Example. Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences,142,182-187.
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