This is one i wouldnt have thought of. In Vietnamese astrology, some years are lucky and children born in these years are likely to be succesful. the authors of the paper below exploit the fact that parents systematically try to have children born in these years to estimate the effect of "wantedness" on child outcomes. They find that children born in the "auspicious" years tend to do better in terms of health and education which they argue is due to the fact that children born in these years are more likely to have been planned. Im sure the Vietnamese astrological society (if there is one) would claim instead that this validates Vietnamese astrology.
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