Children’s Rights with Endogenous Fertility
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This paper uses hypothetical contractarianism to consider the value of children's rights laws as a means of protecting children. Laws protecting children from their parents have the unintended but predictable consequence of making child-rearing less desirable for some parents and thereby reducing the number of children born. Such laws therefore produce a trade-off between the expected wellbeing of actual and possible persons. I show that a possible child behind an appropriate veil of ignorance may rationally oppose laws which benefit some and harm no actual children.Verknüpfung zu Publikationen oder weiteren Datensätzen
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Rationality, markets, and morals: RMM 5 (2014), 93 - 119