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It’s happening all over the developed world. Birth rates are falling in China, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and Greece. Things have played out more slowly in the United States, but we seem to continue moving in the same direction. The U.S. fertility rate has been in decline since just before the Great…

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Birth rates in the United States have been declining since the Great Recession, and many thought that COVID-19 might accelerate this decline.  And, indeed, birth rates early in the pandemic did drop substantially.  However, when the economy swiftly recovered from COVID, birth rates in 2021 ticked up for the first time since 2014. The question…