Source: Works in Progress
The gap between egg freezing's actual success rates and public perception represents a market failure with real consequences—women are making reproductive timing decisions based on outdated or pessimistic data, while fertility clinics have weak incentives to correct the narrative. If accurate efficacy data enters consumer conversations, women currently delaying or abandoning the procedure based on misinformation may reconsider. That ripples outward: career timing, housing demand, birth rates.