11. The siren song of the easy baby

  1.    Hippolyte d’Albis, Paula E. Gobbi, and Angela Greulich, “Having a Second Child and Access to Childcare: Evidence from European Countries,” Journal of Demographic Economics, vol. 83, no. 2 (2017), pp. 177–210.

  2.    Ari Klaengur Jónsson, “The Effects of the Parental Leave Reform and the Economic Crisis on Childbearing Behavior in Iceland at the Dawn of a New Millennium,” Families and Societies Working Paper Series 60 (2016), p. 6.

  3.    Markus Jokela, “Characteristics of the First Child Predict the Parents’ Probability of Having Another Child,” Developmental Psychology, vol. 46, no. 4 (2010), pp. 915–26.

  4.    Winston Chang (@winston_chang), “If there’s a baby boom in 9 months, it’ll consist entirely of first-born children,” Twitter, March 24, 2020, 1:45 p.m., https://twitter.com/winston_chang/status/1242507862229676033.

  5.    Sarah Conly, One Child: Do We Have a Right to More? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), p. 5.

  6.    GBD 2017 Population and Fertility Collaborators, “Population and Fertility by Age and Sex for 195 Countries and Territories, 1950–2017: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017,” The Lancet, vol. 392, no. 10159 (2018), pp. 1995–2051, esp. p. 1995.

  7.    Paul Hawken, ed., Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (New York: Penguin Books, 2017), pp. 78–81.

  8.    Seth Wynes and Kimberly A. Nicholas, “The Climate Mitigation Gap: Education and Government Recommendations Miss the Most Effective Individual Actions,” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 12, no. 7 (2017), p. 3.