When the pandemic began, I didn’t place any bets on what the future would hold. But if I had, I would certainly be out a lot of money. One of my expectations was that pandemic-induced economic ...

The "baby bust" that hit the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic did not affect all states equally -- with states that were more racially diverse or more "blue" seeing bigger ...

Economic factors, not just lockdown-induced forced proximity, played a key role in last year's "baby bump," according to the economists behind a new working paper released earlier this week.

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Since 2020, experts and journalists have been predicting or declaring a baby boom. It never happened. Now that we have numbers from 2023, it’s clear that despite some ups and downs during COVID-19, ...

After years of consecutive declines, U.S. birthrates ticked up slightly in 2021. But that pandemic baby boomlet didn't extend into 2022, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Economically speaking, the signs pointed to a baby bust. But new research on U.S. birth rates during the pandemic upended that expectation. When COVID-19 hit in the early months of 2020, the ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its fourth year, one unexpected results has been a rise in birth rates. It's the first major reversal in declining U.S. fertility rates since 2007. Special ...

I gave birth to my third and final baby on April 3, 2020. While that was a memorable time for me because of the arrival of my son, almost everyone knows exactly where they were on that date because of ...