Jd Vance implies car seat laws prevent whites from having babies.
wtf is the possible causation link he is imagining?
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In many states (maybe all) you canât take your newborn from the hospital without a car seat. Maybe he thinks thatâs cost prohibitive!
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That dealing with car seats is a pain in the ass and makes people not want to have kids I guess?
If he wants to talk about stuff that might make people less likely to have kids, letâs start with healthcare. After that, housing.
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Iâm pretty sure heâs talking about this
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Lololololololo that might be the most republican study Iâve ever seen. âOnly prevented 57 deathsâ of actual living people but maybe stopped 100,000 not actual people from being born.
Inb4 the very idea of a future child is given personhood by SCOTUS.
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Iâm fine with that
Whatever the authors of the study were trying to do or how they were motivated, yes, I believe whatâs his face is picking it up from some Republican think tankâŚor apparently Republican congressional group.
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Daily show highlights Rudy at Trump Rally. Rudy going to go after would be assassins
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Whatâs funny is these people still donât know how to deal with him doing such a hilarious, sloppy, juvenile attack of them. He will probably win the election. GJGE journalists and institutions
If I were writing a referee report, I would ding them for relying only on a linear model when their dependent variable is binary and has a mean near 0. Hopefully peer review got them to run probit or logit as robustness checks.
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âSince 1977, U.S. states have passed laws steadily raising the age for which a child must ride in a car safety seat. These laws significantly raise the cost of having a third child, as many regular-sized cars cannot fit three child seats in the back. Using census data and state-year variation in laws, we estimate that when women have two children of ages requiring mandated car seats, they have a lower annual probability of giving birth by 0.73 percentage points.â
thatâs crazy, actually.
This doesnât seem particularly surprising.
The real story of course is that the US is fucking awful on road safety and youâll should be doing more not less.
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there should be a âwhite baby #3â exemption that allows well-bred couples to transport the 3rd child on the floor of the back seat. just slap a âbaby on boardâ sticker on the bumper and youâre good to go.
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Is that saying that women in regulated states with two car-seat-aged kids have a third kid 0.73% less than women with two same-aged kids in a state that doesnât require them to be in car seats?
That is kind of wild. Seems surprising that a couple dozen people per state or something are actually considering not being able to fit the third car seat, so good for them I guess.
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haha right
I didnât look into it but Iâm like 95% certain that he probably saw that birth rates started declining around the same time that child seat laws went into effect; and of course that means the two are definitely related; at least if youâre a dumbass.
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Are they no longer banging?
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think he prolly just means crazy in the sack
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