WakWak on Nostr: “The U.S. rollout of the iPhone, the first modern smartphone, provides a natural ...
“The U.S. rollout of the iPhone, the first modern smartphone, provides a natural experiment: from June 2007 through February 2011, the device was sold only on AT&T, allowing us to identify its effect from variation in AT&T’s mobile broadband coverage....Overall, the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15–44.”
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35310 
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