Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is an American economist and associate professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Pakaluk is author of the widely 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 covered on Fox News, Daily Wire, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, EWTN, and more. She holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard University. She is married to American philosopher Michael Pakaluk. They split their time between suburban Maryland and New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
