The latest status symbol of the 1% is a third kid. ‘It has become rarer for everyone else,’ says an economist

49% of top-1% earners have three or more kids, vs. about 40% of the rest of the top 10%, economist Mike Konczal found in Federal Reserve data.

Source: [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/11/08/third-child-top-1-percent-family-size-konczal/)