The trade-off between family size and child health in rural Bangladesh

被引：8
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作者：
Peters C. [1 ]
Rees D.I. [2 ]
Hernández-Julián R. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Department of Economics, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Campus Box 77, Denver, CO 80217-3362
[2] Department of Economics, University of Colorado Denver, Campus Box 181, Denver, CO 80217-3364
来源：
Eastern Economic Journal | 2014年 / 40卷 / 1期
关键词：
family size; child health; quantity–quality trade-off; I10; I12; J13;
D O I：
10.1057/eej.2012.36
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摘要：
Most of the work testing the quantity-quality model has concentrated on the trade-off between family size and educational attainment. We argue that child health is a plausible measure of child quality that has not been fully explored in the empirical literature. Using data from the Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey, we estimate the effect of family size on child mortality and several measures of child health. Our results suggest that even in rural Bangladesh there is little evidence of a trade-off between child quantity and health. © 2014 EEA.
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页数：24
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