BBC on Education Fever in Asia

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<p>A paper by two scholars at UPenn…</p>

<p>Education Fever and the East Asian Fertility Puzzle:
A Case Study of Low Fertility in South Korea</p>

<p><a href=“http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=psc_working_papers[/url]”>http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=psc_working_papers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>(more bonus points…as Singapore this time “smack talks” Korea…)</p>

<p>The article also quotes the Singaporean Education Minister, who when asked about Singapore’s reliance on private education last year, responded optimistically that “We’re not as bad as the Koreans”</p>