It’s (at least partly) the phones, y'all.

New NBER WP this morning with Zeke Hooper: we estimate the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in US births from 2007–2011. #econtwitter🧵
nber.org/papers/w35310 Zeke is my former student at @Middlebury --- and my stepson. This project grew out of family dinner-table debates about iGen. We found @JonHaidt and @jean_twenge compelling… but how do you know the link between smartphones and falling fertility is causal?

Check out how abortion access has changed since the end of #RoevWade. I just launched a new abortion access dashboard you can use to visualize changes in travel distances and appointment availability as abortion bans ripple across the country. (1/7)

abortionaccessdashboard.org Click on any state to see how average travel time to the nearest provider has changed since March and how it would continue to change if all 25 bans warned by @Guttmacher and @ReproRights come to pass.(2/7) abortionaccessdashboard.org

What do economists have to say about abortion? A whole lot, it turns out. Some of the highlights from our brief to @Scotus in the case that will likely decide the fate of #RoeVWade. #EconTwitter @ReproRights 1/ Mississippi claims it is no big deal to overturn the precedent of Roe because “there is simply no causal link between the availability of abortion and the capacity of women to act in society.” Economists demonstrate this claim has no basis in fact. 2/