davidsolomon

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by davidsolomon 6y ago
In terms of the general effects that some counties are richer than others, and some years people are richer than others, this will be captured by our fixed effects that control for overall birth rates for each combination of county, year, a
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by davidsolomon 6y ago
At a minimum, one thing that we can hopefully convince you of is that our research methodology as designed is reasonably conceptually sound. If we're wrong in our research design, that's a problem regardless of anything else. But
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by davidsolomon 6y ago
This is definitely possible - we've only looked at deaths. One point to note about the 57 deaths number. There's also an argument to be made that you should apply the same burden of proof to claims that car seats reduce fertility,
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by davidsolomon 6y ago
One of the interesting things about the feedback we've gotten on the paper has been the number of people who report that this problem is a pain for them, even if it doesn't rise as far as stopping them having another child. To us,
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by davidsolomon 6y ago
> That's just not how people make decisions at that level. If you want a kid you get a kid and you roll with it. You know it's gonna be expensive but you just deal. The way I think about it as that these laws only need to affec
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by davidsolomon 6y ago
Hi, I'm one of the paper authors here. Happy to answer questions. Here's how I think about our methodology. Car seat laws generate an unusually sharp prediction for births that can be distinguished from a lot of competing effects