The more that men can credibly signal they will be dependable ‘dads’ and not disappointing ‘duds,’ the higher the birth rate will be in the face of greater female agency,” Goldin writes in a companion ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Roughly 60 years after the post-WWII baby boom ended, the global birth rate is less than half what it ...

Households across the developed world have grown more equal over the past two decades, with men taking on a larger share of chores and childcare than their fathers ever did. Yet birth rates have ...

The U.S. birth rate has been declining since the Great Recession, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and that problem is about to rear its head in college enrollment numbers.