Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is an American economist and social philosopher at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DCatherine Ruth Pakaluk is an American economist and social philosopher at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Pakaluk is author of the acclaimed ethnography Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth (Regnery, 2024), a multidisciplinary account of American women choosing to have large families against the global trend to sub-replacement fertility. Her work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, Slate, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and more. She holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard University. Mother of eight children, she is married to philosopher Michael Pakaluk.