Longitudinal survey data demonstrates that individuals who have fewer children than their desired number report lower happiness as they age

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In the 2015 Canon photography experiment, each photographer was given a different fictional background story about a male subject

In the 2015 Canon photography experiment, the photographer told the subject was an alcoholic photographed the subject sitting alone looking sad

In the 2015 Canon photography experiment, six professional photographers were asked to photograph the same person

Norman Dixon authored the 1976 psychological study titled 'On the Psychology of Military Incompetence.'

In the 2015 Canon photography experiment, the photographer told the subject was a psychic placed an empty chair next to the subject

In the 2015 Canon photography experiment, the photographer told the subject was an ex-inmate captured the subject with a shadow cast across his face

Because Federal Housing Administration appraisal standards mandated racial segregation, the fertility increases spurred by post-war government-backed mortgages were concentrated almost entirely among white women

A study across 40 countries by Nick Bloom and co-authors found that couples where both partners work from home at least one day per week have an average of 0.33 additional children globally and 0.5 additional children in the United States

The average American woman of reproductive age reports desiring between 2.0 and 2.7 children

At an individual household level, income is positively associated with having more children in the United States

Cash incentives and child allowances produce statistically reliable increases in birth volume across empirical studies

Between 1940 and 1960, the United States experienced a major increase in its general fertility rate known as the Baby Boom

Nick Bloom and co-authors estimated that increased remote work resulted in approximately 300,000 additional births annually in the United States between 2023 and 2025

Research by Caitlin Myers and Ezekiel Hooper found that the rollout of the iPhone under AT&T's carrier monopoly from 2007 to 2011 caused a significant drop in fertility among women in their 20s

Funding a cash baby bonus to reach replacement fertility in the United States entirely through direct payouts would require an estimated check of $150,000 per newborn, costing approximately 4% of GDP

Controlling for the number of reproductive years an individual is married, there has been virtually no decline in United States fertility in the 25 years prior to November 2026

The general fertility rate is measured as the number of births per 1,000 women in a given period

Exposure to papal visits causes an increase in local childbearing nine months later

The general fertility rate in the United States declined precipitously across the 1960s and 1970s

Couples in which only one partner works remotely experience roughly half the fertility increase observed when both partners work remotely