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Can smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?
Why this matters: a developing story that could shape the day's news cycle.
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.
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