Economics and Low Fertility, Some Stylised Facts

The Economist has an informative and interesting (if somewhat complacent) article on European fertility this week, and I have a pretty lengthy post on A Fistful of Euros which goes through the main issues raised.There seem to be two central points here isa) that there is no such thing as "European Fertility", but rather there are various patterns (the Economist divides Europe in two, I try to be