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447. How Much Do We Really Care About Children?

Freakonomics Radio

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Predictions of a Coved Baby Bust

Carney: The spanish flue did not have an associated recession because of the war effort. And too, people didn't have access to advanced contraceptive technology back in nineteen and twenty like they do now. So factoring those responses into the current pandemic, we say maybe we should expect a ten to 13 per cent reduction in births....

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