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Testing the Quantity-Quality Fertility Model: The Use of Twins as a Natural Experiment
Abstract
The predictive content of the quantity-quality model of fertility and the empirical information required for verification under a minimal set of restrictions on the utility function is described. It is demonstrated that commodity-independent compensated price effects must be known to infer the existence of the unobservable interdependent shadow prices of the model with a relatively weak structure improsed on preference orderings. A method of using multiple birth events to substitute for these exogenous prices is proposed and applied to household data from India.
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- Authors
- Rosenzweig, M. R., & Wolpin, K. I.
- Venue
- Econometrica
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1980-01
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 227
- ISSN
- 0012-9682 (ISSN-L)
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- W1980801036
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- 708
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- 9.70
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- Language
- en
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- closed
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