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Can smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?
Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decade…
The Population Bust
A revealing global journey into declining birth rates, ageing societies, and their far-reaching impact.…
As Climate Doomerism Ends, Will Birth Rates Pick Up?
Much of the climate anxiety shaping millennial and Gen Z attitudes toward the future was manufactured through exaggerated predictions that are now being abandoned.…
Declining Global Birth Rates Aren't "Suspicious," They're Bullish
People power economic growth, but declining global birth rates are a bullish phenomenon. Yes, both statements are true at the same time. If declining birth rates foretold economic …
UK Births drop for fourth straight year as costs and dread pile up
Last year was the quietest year for maternity wards in England and Wales since 1977, according to the BBC's reporting on the latest Office for National Statistics data. Fewer than……
Rosewood Hotels institutes a global 16-week paid parental leave policy as Asia grapples with crashing birth rates
The Hong Kong-based hotel chain hopes to shift attitudes towards caregiving, and "drive business resilience in the long-term."…
Are smartphones to blame for declining birth rates?
There’s nothing quite like a graph to capture the public imagination. Ever since the Covid era, in which viral dashboards featuring flawed cross-country comparisons were all the ra…
Why are birth rates falling? Ask your smartphone.
The science of us
Editor in chief Nancy Shute introduces a new social sciences column that explores what it means to be human.…
Falling Birth Rates Are a Mystery
<p>Whatever the reason turns out to be, it won’t fit neatly into any mainstream political ideology.</p>…
Falling Birth Rates Are a Mystery
The 10 countries with the highest birth rates — and the 10 with the lowest
The global birth rate is less than half what it was in the 1960s. See where birth rates are highest and lowest.…
Sharp decline in birth rates linked to adoption of smartphones
According to an in-depth data analysis by the Financial Times, the introduction of smartphones may have led to a further decline in fertility worldwide.…
The Smartphone Theory of Birth Rate Decline Doesn't Hold Up
Fertility rates started falling centuries before the iPhone was introduced.…
Andhra plans cash incentives to encourage higher birth rates
Andhra plans cash incentives to encourage higher birth rates | India News…