Just when you think smartphone panic can't get any more dumb, it always does. Case in point: People are insisting that phones are why people worldwide are having fewer kids. There's one very simple, ...

The advent of the iPhone nearly 20 years ago may have had a direct impact on declining birth rates, a new study argues. The working study, published recently by the National Bureau of Economic ...

A decades-long decline in the U.S. fertility rate has confounded policymakers and economists alike, with experts pointing to possible causes ranging from the economic fallout of the Great Recession to ...

The birth rate in the U.S. declined in 2025, according to a report released in April by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data showed a 1% decline in the birth rate to 53.1 births ...

iPhones may have slightly exacerbated an already underway drop in unintended pregnancies among teens. That's the big finding in a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic ...