Under the pressure of high housing prices and high consumption, more and more young couples choose to marry later and have children later, and some even become DINKs. "High housing prices are the best contraceptive pill." This famous saying circulating on the Internet sounds a bit exaggerated, but it is really confirmed!

High housing prices have caused many office workers to spend their whole lives working hard for a house. How can they even think about having children? Now they cannot afford to raise even one. What if they are twins? The financial pressure is too great. , so although the country has now relaxed the two-child policy, the effect is not obvious in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. This is the reason.

House prices are overheated, and having another child will increase the pressure. Being a house slave is already very hard, so how dare you have another child, so couples will naturally intentionally use contraception.

“High housing prices are the best contraceptive pill.”

This joke is obviously just a joke, but will housing prices really affect young couples’ desire to have children if housing prices are too high? Is it really just because I can’t afford a house that I don’t dare to have children?

People often have their own subjective understanding of this statement, but there has been a lack of a sufficient number of samples for statistical verification.

The editor noticed that a research report recently released by Zillow, the largest real estate platform in the United States, confirmed that there is a strong negative correlation between housing prices and fertility rates!

This report points out: Taking women aged 25-29 across the United States as a sample, for every 10% increase in housing prices, the fertility rate will decrease by 1.5%. And in big cities like Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York, the impact of high housing prices on fertility rates is even more obvious.