A new paper by UCLA economist Martha Bailey, “The Economics of Childbearing: Trends, Progress, and Challenges,” has been featured in The New York Times. The article highlights Bailey’s analysis of how childbearing in the United States has changed over the past century, with particular attention to the distinctive patterns that have emerged since the 1960s during the so-called “second demographic transition.”

You can read the paper in the Annual Review of Economics here, and the New York Times coverage here.