UCLA Professor Martha Bailey’s paper: “The COVID-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic,” joint with Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt, receives broad media coverage in the most important outlets. It is featured in the Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR’s Marketplace, CNN, Fortune, U.S. News and World Report, Time, Axios, and Marketwatch.

The paper, which studies the relationship between the pandemic and fertility rates can be found here.