Spiegel brings us this happy news:
The football World Cup from June 9 to July 9 last year appears to have sparked a baby boom in the host country Germany, where hospitals are reporting a marked rise in imminent births nine months after the tournament, remembered here as a month-long fairy-tale of sunshine, parties and soccer success.
The head of the largest birth clinic in the city of Kassel, Rolf Kliche, estimates that births at his hospital will be up by 10 to 15 percent, which he described as a “minor sensation” given the usually stable birth statistics.
Kliche said he wasn’t surprised because happiness tends to release hormones and makes it easier to get pregnant. “With many people the excitement they felt during the matches seems to have lasted and been employed in other ways after the final whistle,” he told Hessicher Rundfunk radio.
Now, what I want to know is this: if part of the problem with Social Security is that our demographic pyramid is becoming top-heavy, can this sort of phenomenon be used to address OASDI’s revenue shortfalls? 