Nobel Prize winning economist blames men for the fertility crisis in 2026 paper: We aren't doing enough housework and childcare!

"The more that men can credibly signal they will be dependable ‘dads’ and not disappointing ‘duds,’ the higher the birth rate will be in the face of greater female agency," Claudia Goldin writes in an opinion piece.

She is not the only quackademic to make the argument that gender inequality is responsible for declining fertility, I mentioned a few in this post from 2024.

Problem: The correlation she identified disappears when you include countries that she omitted; "the amount of variation in fertility rates that is explained by the time-use differences approaches 2 percent" (source).

Female equality is the primary cause of fertility decline.

#fertility