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quantity-quality tradeoff: a standalone construct

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Development economics

parents trading off the number of children against spending per child, so fertility and child investment interact.

In development economics, quantity-quality tradeoff refers to parents trading off the number of children against spending per child, so fertility and child investment interact. This meaning comes from Becker (1973) in Journal of Political Economy.[1]

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References

Becker, G. S., & Lewis, H. G. (1973). On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children. Journal of Political Economy, 81(2, Part 2), S279-S288. https://doi.org/10.1086/260166

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