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标题：The Trade-off between Child Quantity and Child Quality: An Application of the Kremer-Chen Model to Households in Rural Terengganu, Malaysia
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作者：Nor Azam Abdul-Razak ; Roslan Abdul-Hakim ; Russayani Ismail 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Economics and Finance
印刷版ISSN：1916-971X
电子版ISSN：1916-9728
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：3
页码：257
DOI：10.5539/ijef.v3n3p257
出版社：Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要：The idea of the trade-off between child quantity and child quality has long been documented in economics. In the past, this trade-off has been attributed to the rising marginal cost of child quantity and quality. In recent years, this trade-off has been attributed to a declining direct cost of childrearing and an escalating opportunity cost of childrearing induced by rising household income. Exploiting a micro data set from rural Terengganu, we revisit the idea based on this new postulate. Our goal is to investigate whether a rise in household income has a positive impact on child quality and a negative impact on child quantity. In a series of empirical exercises, we find that household income has a positive impact on both child quantity and child quality. We take these findings as evidence that there is no trade-off between child quantity and child quality among rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia.