Home prices may be the real birth control. A new study by Benjamin K. Couillard, a doctoral candidate in economics at the ...

The total fertility rate for the United States in 2017 continued to dip below what's needed for the population to replace itself, according to a new report from the National Center for Health ...

"If housing is to be a lever in family policy, the focus must be on producing the housing that families want," a new study said.

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

Pronatalism—the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed—is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

Affordability could be a key factor behind America’s declining birth rate, with one preprint paper finding that rising housing costs since the 1990s caused a significant drop in the number of births.

Utah’s fertility rate has dropped again, according to federal data. The decline also means Utah’s rank nationally has fallen in comparison to other states. In 2022, only three states had a higher ...

The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman, new federal data released Thursday shows.Related video above: More moms choosing to have kids after ...

Form error message goes here. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. For years, people concerned about falling birth rates have warned of the economic ...