iPhones may have slightly exacerbated an already underway drop in unintended pregnancies among teens. That's the big finding in a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
In a more sane environment, this paper would be greeted with somewhere between slightly increased respect for the poor smartphone and a collective shrug. Or perhaps with some skepticism—how exactly did the authors reach this conclusion anyway? Does it hold up?
