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TUESDAY, Aug. 22, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 recession resulted in an overall baby bump, or increase in births, among U.S.-born mothers, according to a study published online Aug.

Mothers use sing-song language to talk to their infants. Their dogs respond to it, too, according to a new study. Get more on that and other health news here.

COVID-19 accomplished what would-be grandparents and government actuaries could not: It persuaded millennials to have kids.

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A baby boomlet may not have been 2021’s only productivity increase.

It's a tale as old as time that politicians benefit by whipping up crime panic and accusing opponents of being soft on the issue.

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The upside of losing parental leave from the Build Back Better plan

By Martha J. Bailey, Professor, Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles, Shuqiao Sun, Economist, World Bank, and Brenden Timpe, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska. Originally published at VoxEU. Preschool attendance in the US is largely funded by parents, which means that the children of more affluent and educated parents are more likely to attend. This column looks at the impact of Head Start, a large-scale preschool programme that serves roughly 1 m...