Financial incentives and subsidies (such as child tax credits, free university, or cash payments for childbirth) have not been shown to significantly increase lifetime fertility rates, only to shift the timing of when people have children, not whether they have them.
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Dean SpearsEvidence Quote
“If you offer somebody an in, you know, it's a, you know, let's just say that I were to go and give you $5,000 if you become a parent in the next three years, right? You might do it, um, but then not have a kid that you were otherwise planning to have six years from now.”
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