From the darkest days of the pandemic, researchers have uncovered an ‘unexpected’ bump in births from American-born women that brought 46,000 newborns into the world, defying a years-long decline in fertility rates.A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that births fell at the start of the pandemic but picked up among young, US-born women, likely due to work-from-home rules during lockdowns.The , which has not been peer-reviewed, sheds light on the divergent birth rates between America’s native and immigrant populations and on how greater workplace flexibility could be a solution to declining fertility rates.
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