Government Childbearing Incentives

You just knew it had to be going on but here's some data on the subject.

Germany saw a birth boom during the first days of the new ear, attributed mainly to the government's childbearing incentives (bonuses of up to the equivalent of $33,000, leading mothers to attempt to delay December delivery until the law kicked in on Jan. 1). Meanwhile, in the United States, according to a December New York Times feature, an estimated 6% of the annual 70,000 babies scheduled to be born the first week of January were once again induced early, for late December delivery, to take advantage of tax breaks of at least $4,000 per child.