Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼#155
Two working papers in the past month ascribed fertility decline to the smartphone, but they couldn't tell us which aspect of smartphones do it. In this paper, I find that interest in mobile dating apps, unlike social media, leads to an immediate fall in fertility outcomes.
Negative users call dating apps pernicious because they see them as failing their core promise while directly contributing to fertility decline.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6880059
@PeterRFB @Noahpinion I posited yesterday that dating apps are second price auctions but one with uncreditworthy counterparties with no remedy for performance.
@nw3 @Noahpinion Yeah, there are a lot of theories as to how dating apps might be pernicious, but I think we might agree that the core problem is that they are just bad at doing what they promise. So when people substitute time spent looking for partners IRL with the apps, it can cause problems!
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼#155Two working papers in the past month ascribed fertility decline to the smartphone, but they couldn't tell us which aspect of smartphones do it. In this paper, I find that interest in mobile dating apps, unlike social media, leads to an immediate fall in fertility outcomes.