Amelia Vayda, Chapter 2, Question 5

In chapter two Charles Wheelan mainly discusses incentives and how there are positive and negative incentives that are either effective or ineffective. Some of these incentives can be viewed as controversial. One controversial issue that is discussed in the book is the car seat requirements for infants on airplanes and if it causes more or less deaths in infants. The FAA believes that the use of car seats for infants decreases the number of deaths on airplanes, but this then just makes the deaths in car accidents go up. This happens since parents have to buy an extra seat that costs just as much as their own ticket just for their kid to sit in a car seat.  Before the car seat rule infants could sit on the parents laps. To some families that is too much money and parents decide that it is cheaper to just drive to their final destination. To the FAA it causes less deaths in infants but to other people it causes more, but mainly in car related accidents instead. In my opinion the car seat requirement should be necessary because it does lower the deaths on planes but if it is for an infant it should be a lower price so that it is more affordable for families.