Levitt's TED talk on the effectiveness of child car-seats in reducing child road deaths is linked below. he discusses on his blog that the speech bombed but its well worth watching. a version of the paper is below though a later paper seems to show some effects on reducing injuries (as he previews in the talk)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_levitt_on_child_carseats.html
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/a-speech-of-mine-that-bombed/http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/levitt_carseats_farsdata.pdf
http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2008/2008_119.pdf
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