As someone who grew up with the modern smartphone, I feared that phones were making Gen-Z dumb, antisocial, brain-rot filled robots; are they making us infertile, too?
A landmark study published in The National Bureau of Economic Research titled “Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly” suggests exactly that. According to research by Caitlin K. Myers and Ezekiel Hooper, the diffusion of the iPhone accelerated the post-2007 U.S. fertility decline and could account for 33 to 52 percent of the drop in the general fertility rate among women aged 15 to 44 between 2007 and 2011.
The study ...
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