The paper by UCLA economist Martha Bailey, “The Economics of Childbearing: Trends, Progress, and Challenges,” is featured in a Wall Street Journal article on low fertility rates in the United States. The article highlights Bailey’s analysis of recent declines in U.S. fertility, emphasizing that lower birth rates may reflect delayed childbearing rather than a permanent decision to forgo motherhood.

You can read the paper in the Annual Review of Economics here, and the Wall Street Journal coverage here.