Does the marriage law affect the fertility rate by lowering the age of marriage?

"This proposal theoretically expands the scope of the married and childbearing population of school age, makes the potential childbearing population wider, and can improve the fertility rate to a certain extent." On February 6th, Wang Peng, a researcher at Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, made an analysis of Time Finance. In the current situation of negative population growth, lowering the age of marriage is conducive to encouraging fertility.

"It has no effect on those who don't want to get married early, but it is good news for those who want to get married early." He Yafu, one of the authors of the above report and editor-in-chief of Population and Future Network, pointed out to Time Finance. He stressed that the purpose of lowering the legal age of marriage to 18 is not to improve the fertility rate, but to respect the logical unity of the legal system.

To solve this problem, Time Finance also interviewed ChatGPT, which is popular on the Internet recently. "In theory, lowering the legal age for marriage may lead to an increase in the desire of young couples to have children, thus increasing the fertility rate. However, it depends on many other factors, such as economic situation, education level, health status and so on. Therefore, lowering the legal age of marriage does not necessarily lead to an increase in the fertility rate, which requires further research and confirmation. " ChatGPT replied like this.

The netizen "18 years old is still on campus, aren't you afraid of affecting your studies?" Wang Peng believes that at present, the society is more tolerant of people's choice of marriage and childbearing, and they can get married and have children when they go to college, which can be achieved by dropping out of school and other ways. At the same time, it is necessary to further consolidate national education and basic education. Even if women are married and have children, they should respect their right to education in high schools, vocational schools and higher education if they are willing to further improve their abilities.