{"id":269646,"date":"2026-06-10T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/is-the-iphone-deepening-americas-fertility-decline\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:30:13","slug":"is-the-iphone-deepening-americas-fertility-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/is-the-iphone-deepening-americas-fertility-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the iPhone deepening America&#8217;s fertility decline?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/is-the-iphone-deepening-americas-fertility-decline.html\">Is the iPhone deepening America&#8217;s fertility decline?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/is-the-iphone-deepening-americas-fertility-decline.html\">https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/is-the-iphone-deepening-americas-fertility-decline.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-10 16:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.christianpost.com\">www.christianpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> By  Samantha Kamman<span class=\"quiet\">, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, June 10, 2026<\/span><span class=\"photo-des\">Unsplash\/Daniel Romero<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The iPhone may have played a role in the falling birth rates in the United States by changing how young people socialize, form relationships and spend their time, new research suggests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Researchers Caitlin Myers and Ezekiel Hooper of Middlebury College in Vermont analyzed the connection between the smartphone\u2019s 2007 release and the overall decrease in fertility since then in a paper published this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The research has not yet been independently reviewed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. general fertility rate has fallen by 22% since 2007, a sustained decline not readily explained by economic conditions, contraceptive use, housing or childcare costs, or other commonly cited factors,\u201d Myers and Hooper wrote. \u201cWe assess the potential role of a different shock: the diffusion of the smartphone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first iPhone was rolled out in 2007, and the researchers noted that their study uses that timeframe as \u201ca natural experiment,\u201d drawing on data from 2007 through 2011, when iPhones were sold only on AT&#038;T.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom June 2007 through February 2011, the device was sold only on AT&#038;T, allowing us to identify its effect from variation in AT&#038;T\u2019s mobile broadband coverage,\u201d the study states. \u201cEntropy-balanced Poisson and synthetic difference-in-differences event studies imply that access to the iPhone reduced births by 4.5\u20138.0% at ages 15\u201319 and 3.2\u20136.6% at ages 20\u201324, with statistically significant but smaller declines among older cohorts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also applied placebo analyses to Sprint and Verizon pre-2011 coverage but found no correlation.<\/p>\n<p>Myers and Hooper argue that, taken together, \u201cthese cohort effects imply that the diffusion of the iPhone deepened the decline in births among women under 30 while suppressing the rise in births among older women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33\u201352% of the decline in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/is-the-iphone-deepening-americas-fertility-decline.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the iPhone deepening America&#8217;s fertility decline? https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/is-the-iphone-deepening-americas-fertility-decline.html Publish Date: 2026-06-10 16:17:00 Source Domain: www.christianpost.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/files\/original\/thumbnail\/27\/06\/270620.jpg?v=20260610160647","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269648,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269646\/revisions\/269648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}