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> give flat tax cut for people who have children > problem solved. Keeping it a flat rate also incentivizes wealthier (and thus on average higher educated) pe

• comicjk 10y ago
  Experiments with this type of program have found that it mainly acts as a windfall to people who would have had children anyway. Demand for children seems to be pretty inelastic with respect to money. As far as I can see, it's a matter of social expectations and convenience.
  • tomerico 10y ago
    Uhm, citation needed? I thought that it was well known that economic considerations such as career, daycare costs & even how many children does the car fit affect family size.
  • tornadoboy55 10y ago
    I meant it more in sense that when the human race (or rather 'civilization') starts to collapse that its easy to start propping up birth rates by making having children more and more attractive (financially-wise anyway) until you have the rate you want. The only problem is (and I'll probably get downvoted for this again) is that its mainly poor people that have lots of children. That's not good for society, so I'd rather incentive educated people to have more kids.
  • cletus 10y ago
    I beg to differ. https://www.melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/media_release/final-WP-Baby_Bonus.pdf https://www.melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/media_release/f... > “Our analysis of mothers’ intentions to have a child, and an examination of reported births statistics, suggested that the baby bonus increased the fertility rate by 3.2 per cent”, said co-author of the study, Mark Wooden Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Melbourne Institute.