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Fertility and income, consumption aspirations, and child quality standards

Author(s) -

Arland Thornton

Publication year - 1979

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2061136

Subject(s) - fertility , consumption (sociology) , quality (philosophy) , economics , socioeconomic status , population , low income , demographic economics , socioeconomics , business , labour economics , environmental health , medicine , sociology , social science , philosophy , epistemology

Data from a 1975 national survey of the American population were used to investigate the relationships between childbearing and aspirations for consumption goods, child quality standards, and income. The data were consistent with the hypothesis that preferences for child quality are negatively related to fertility. Aspirations for consumer goods which are related to the home were not found to be negatively related to childbearing while aspirations for nonhome goods were negatively related to fertility as hypothesized. Several indicators of income and, subjective economic well-being were examined, and the overall pattern of results was not supportive of the hypothesized effect of income on fertility.

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