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 decades ago.
Economist Myers attributes one-third to one-half of post-2007 birth decline to smartphone adoption via AT&T's coverage experiment. For tech: this signals platform adoption reshapes demographics—an externality warranting societal-impact review in product and GTM strategy.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone in 2007. A new working paper suggests the spread of smartphones helps explain the persistent decline in birth rates in the nearly two decades since.
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