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Binghamton University researcher to study declining US fertility rates

In the United States, the total fertility rate -- the number of children a woman has in her lifetime -- fell from seven or eight in 1800 to slightly more than two today, says J. David Hacker, assistant professor of history at Binghamton University. And with a five-year $667,237 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Hacker hopes to find out why.

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