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Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly

Saturday, June 20 2026

  Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly Caitlin K. Myers & Ezekiel Hooper Source: National Bureau of Economic Research The U.S. general fertility rate has fallen by...

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Anzzolin, Guardians of Discourse in Porfirian Mexico (2024)

Friday, May 29 2026

Guardians of Discourse Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico By Kevin M. Anzzolin  University of Nebraska Press, 2024 During Porfirio Díaz's thirty-year rule, Mexico dealt with the press in disparate ways in...

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Un disparate el proyecto de reforma de permisos

Saturday, April 25 2026

Un disparate el proyecto de reforma de permisos Fuente: Claridad Tanto el proyecto enviado por la primera ejecutiva como el presentado por el Presidente del Senado, sobre una supuesta reforma de permisos, tienen como...

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Government seizure of Nicaraguan university a blow to science, researchers say

Sunday, April 5 2026

  A woman leaves the Jesuit Central American University (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua August 16, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer Source: Science Magazine Researchers in Nicaragua say the government’s takeover of a prominent private...

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WIDE AND SHALLOW: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE POST-2007 FERTILITY DECLINE

Saturday, June 20 2026

WIDE AND SHALLOW: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE POST-2007 FERTILITY DECLINE NATHAN HUDSON AND HERNAN MOSCOSO BOEDO Source: Hernan J. Moscoso Boedo (University of Cincinnati) Fertility has fallen sharply...

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The Birthrate Paradox: Smartphones, Dopamine, and the Fertility Rate Crisis

Saturday, June 20 2026

Source: Steve Paddon For some time, I was indifferent to headlines warning about declining birth rates. A few decades ago, the alarm bells rang for the opposite problem: exponential population growth...

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Smartphones are to blame for declining birth rates, as studies highlight the iPhone’s role

Saturday, June 20 2026

Source: Digital Trends The timing has long raised questions. Birth rates in the US and dozens of other countries began falling in 2007, the same year Apple put the first iPhone on sale. Two new...

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A drop in US births due to smartphone use? These researchers say so.

Saturday, June 20 2026

Source: USA TODAY   The arrival of the iPhone nearly 20 years ago may have had a direct impact on declining birth rates, a new study argues. The working study, which was published by the National...

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