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$834: how baby bonus adds up to baby boom

Crikey / Friday, 9 November 2007

Whatever the benefits (if any) of a baby bonus is, like any economic policy, governments need to worry about implementation. People have choices and respond to incentives. What we don’t want is a normal, stable and predictable medical environment being disrupted by arbitrary incentives, writes Joshua Gans.