Women Starting Fewer Families in 2017

Today’s CDC Final Birth Data for 2017 revises the Preliminary report (below): the birth rate is at a new low, but not quite as low as thought; it’s 60.3 births / 1000 (rather than 60.2), down 2%.* Here’s the revised

What’s Pushing Births to 30-Year Low, & Rates Down among All Ages Except 40+?

What does it mean for a country when nobody (or a fast declining number) is having kids? Most clearly it means a smaller workforce on the horizon (especially when combined with cuts to immigration), which could be good if that workforce

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Later Motherhood and the Politics & Economics of Women's Work

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Women Starting Fewer Families in 2017

What’s Pushing Births to 30-Year Low, & Rates Down among All Ages Except 40+?