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447. How Much Do We Really Care About Children?

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Car Seats and Family Planning in the United States

If current laws had applied since nineteen eighty, you would have had three hundred and fifty thousand fewer children born. The cost of a new, bigger vehicle on many van is one thing, but the cost of college or the cost of child care is obviously much, much more. So by peeling off an incredibly narrow question for which data were available, solomon and nicherson are confident that car seats have, at least to a very small degree, influenced family planning....

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