There was an article I read in the Econonmist[0] (paywall, sorry) a couple months ago, that talks about a paper [1] (read the abstract) how raising the age that

There was an article I read in the Econonmist[0] (paywall, sorry) a couple months ago, that talks about a paper [1] (read the abstract) how raising the age that children are required to stay in car seats, 8 yo in the US, causes birth rates to decline. The reasoning is that cars have room for two, but not three, children in car seats. Thus the cost of the third child includes upgrading to a larger sized car or van. Very interesting unintended consequence of a safety measure. Also this doesn't deal with the pandemic results, but when I read about it I thought it was interesting and that if this is a thread about birth rates, others might want to read about it too. [0] https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/11/26/child-safety-laws-may-reduce-the-birth-rate https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/11/26/... [1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046