America’s Fertility Crisis Has Astonishing New Link to iPhones, Study Finds

According to a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the real cause of the declining birth rate may be sitting in our pockets — the iPhone.

Detailed in the research paper, Caitlin K. Myers and Ezekiel Hooper investigated the connection between the release of the smartphone in 2007 and the overall decrease in fertility that started the same year.