Melissa S. Kearney Profile picture
Economics Professor at Univ of Maryland; Director of @AspenEcon; Non-resident Senior Fellow at Brookings; Mom of 3; from NJ
Aug 13, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Seems like every month or so there is another essay suggesting that US births are down bc the price of having kids has gotten too expensive in the US over the past 15 yrs or so.

A look at data & evidence just doesn’t really support that explanation…

https://t.co/DzpITjanY1economicstrategygroup.org/publication/ke…
Here’s my take on the data & evidence w/ @phil_wellesley -

economicstrategygroup.org/publication/ke…