Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-Off a Trade-Off for All, None, or Some?

Daniel Millimet and Le Wang

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, vol. 60, issue 1, 155 - 195

Abstract: Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship--particularly on child health--is limited. We use two measures of child health to assess the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire distribution. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and controlling for the potential endogeneity of child quantity, we find modest, statistically meaningful evidence of a causal trade-off.

Date: 2011
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