Considering some of the other ways economists describe people, that's an interesting one to get offended over.
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Which is fine, but this is how the word is used in research.
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Nope, that's just the usage you're familiar with.
From Wikipedia: "Fertility refers to the actual production of offspring, rather than the physical capability to reproduce, which is termed fecundity."
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Colloquial usage often differs slightly from technical and leads to misunderstandings.
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fertility
, they think of theability to have children
. But when social scientists hear it, they thinkthe act of having children, whether by choice or otherwise.