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447. How Much Do We Really Care About Children?

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Carney and Levine's Pandemic Baby Bust Estimate

Carney and levine looked at what happened to the u. S birthray after the spanish flue epidemic of nineteen eighteen. In recent years, over forty per cent of births in the u.S were unmarried mothers. Just based on the recession effects alone, we would expect a seven to ten per cent reduction in births....

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