Killing the mood: smartphones reduce birth rate, studies say

Research shows the introduction of the smartphone played a ‘sizeable role’ in the decline in US births after 2007

As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new US studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit − the smartphone.

‘Is the iPhone birth control?’ asked a paper published on Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research, delving into why US fertility rates have fallen by 22% since 2007.

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