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447. How Much Do We Really Care About Children?

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Is the Cost of Child Raising Contributing to the Lower Fertility Rate?

Economic opportunities for women have expanded. For many women, having a career is in conflict with having kids or more kids. Access to really effective contraception has been improving. When the costs associated with having kids goes up, people have fewer of them. The project they got to thinking about began with a hypothesis, a hypothesis about child car seats....

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