The US fertility rate has been trending down for decades, leaving researchers and policymakers searching for causes that may help pinpoint solutions. There have been all kinds of theories, including soaring costs of childcare, the rise of birth control and even the role of car seat regulations.

New research links the rise of the iPhone and smartphones to falling birth rates worldwide, suggesting digital life may be reshaping sex, fertility and family plans.

New research reveals smartphones may contribute to declining birth rates, reshaping relationships and social behaviors alongside financial pressures and evolving societal norms.

It might really be the phones. Well, at least a little bit.

Economists find signs of a ‘large and causal relationship between iPhones and fertility' in AT&T exclusivity-era data

Investigación se realizó en Estados Unidos y fue publicada este mes por NBER.

WASHINGTON, June 10 — As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new US studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit — the...

Pesquisadores analisaram dados dos EUA e concluíram que condados com acesso a iPhone tiveram menos bebês

Investigaciones revelan que la reducción de nacimientos se acentuó en zonas con acceso temprano a smartphones, especialmente entre adolescentes, con caídas del 4,5% al 8%.

The iPhone was introduced in 2007, the same year the U.S. birth rate started to slide. The issues could be linked, a new analysis finds.

Birth rates decreased markedly around the time the iPhone and high-speed internet were rolled out; two new studies say this is the moment we stopped having children and started…

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…

A recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper noted the link between iPhone sales and declining births could be a result of more time on devices, and less time connecting.

The US fertility rate has been trending down for decades, leaving researchers and policymakers searching for causes that may help pinpoint solutions. There have been all kinds of…