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Denis Colombi
This dumb phones-cause-fertility-decline theory is a kind of economics research I dislike. It's just like Melissa Kearney's old thing about 16 and Pregnant causing a decline in teen births. A reasonable hypothesis would be, "Birth rates are falling because fewer people are dating and marrying," ...
Philip N Cohen
Ugh. Not good reporting about unrefereed preprints. Sabrina Tavernese at NYT says two studies were "published," one of which was "published in the National Bureau of Economic Research" (not a journal) the other is on SSRN (not identified).
