Lyman Stone <a href="https://ifstudies.org/report-brief/expand-the-child-tax-credit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assesses the evidence</a> from around the world. One topic that researchers have not to my knowledge examined: whether policies such as tax credits for children have a larger effect on birth rates in countries where surveys regularly find a large positive gap between the number of children that women, on average, want, and the number they have. The U.S. is such a country.

Would it have a larger effect in countries where women want significantly more children than they end up having?{ai:summary}<p>Lyman Stone evaluates global evidence on the impact of policies like child tax credits on birth rates. He notes a lack of research into whether these policies are more effective in countries, like the U.S., where there is a significant gap between desired and actual childbearing. </p><p>#society</p>

The Corner: The Child Tax Credit Can Raise Birth Rates

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