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The trade-off between child quantity and child quality and the public provision of education: A case study in rural Terengganu, Malaysia

The objective of this paper is to examine whether the theory of the child quantity-quality (CQQ) trade-off developed by Becker and Lewis (1973) is borne out by the data from a developing country.In brief, the theory states that households behave differently with respect to their mixture of child qua...

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Main Authors: Abdul Razak, Nor Azam, Abdul Hakim, Roslan, Ismail, Russayani
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2010
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
L Education (General)
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spelling my.uum.repo.70662016-04-24T02:35:51Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/7066/ The trade-off between child quantity and child quality and the public provision of education: A case study in rural Terengganu, Malaysia Abdul Razak, Nor Azam Abdul Hakim, Roslan Ismail, Russayani HD28 Management. Industrial Management L Education (General) The objective of this paper is to examine whether the theory of the child quantity-quality (CQQ) trade-off developed by Becker and Lewis (1973) is borne out by the data from a developing country.In brief, the theory states that households behave differently with respect to their mixture of child quantity and child quality depending on their standards of living (i.e. low-income households tend to choose child quantity at the expense of child quality, and the converse is true for high-income households).If the government provides enough support for education, however, this trade-off might be undermined.Using a sample of 885 children from a survey of 2,500 households in rural areas in Terengganu in 2009, we conducted an empirical analysis on the relationship between child quantity and child quality.In the baseline estimation as well as in a series of robustness check, our key findings are that there is a positive yet insignificant impact of child quantity on child quality.Accordingly, we take these results as mild evidence against the CQQ trade-off which, in turn, can be attributed to the magnitude of the public provision of education in Malaysia. Universiti Utara Malaysia 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/7066/1/mmj145-1.pdf Abdul Razak, Nor Azam and Abdul Hakim, Roslan and Ismail, Russayani (2010) The trade-off between child quantity and child quality and the public provision of education: A case study in rural Terengganu, Malaysia. Malaysian Management Journal, 14. pp. 61-71. ISSN 0128-6226 http://mmj.uum.edu.my/
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
L Education (General)
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
L Education (General)
Abdul Razak, Nor Azam
Abdul Hakim, Roslan
Ismail, Russayani
The trade-off between child quantity and child quality and the public provision of education: A case study in rural Terengganu, Malaysia
description The objective of this paper is to examine whether the theory of the child quantity-quality (CQQ) trade-off developed by Becker and Lewis (1973) is borne out by the data from a developing country.In brief, the theory states that households behave differently with respect to their mixture of child quantity and child quality depending on their standards of living (i.e. low-income households tend to choose child quantity at the expense of child quality, and the converse is true for high-income households).If the government provides enough support for education, however, this trade-off might be undermined.Using a sample of 885 children from a survey of 2,500 households in rural areas in Terengganu in 2009, we conducted an empirical analysis on the relationship between child quantity and child quality.In the baseline estimation as well as in a series of robustness check, our key findings are that there is a positive yet insignificant impact of child quantity on child quality.Accordingly, we take these results as mild evidence against the CQQ trade-off which, in turn, can be attributed to the magnitude of the public provision of education in Malaysia.
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author Abdul Razak, Nor Azam
Abdul Hakim, Roslan
Ismail, Russayani
author_facet Abdul Razak, Nor Azam
Abdul Hakim, Roslan
Ismail, Russayani
author_sort Abdul Razak, Nor Azam
title The trade-off between child quantity and child quality and the public provision of education: A case study in rural Terengganu, Malaysia
title_short The trade-off between child quantity and child quality and the public provision of education: A case study in rural Terengganu, Malaysia
title_full The trade-off between child quantity and child quality and the public provision of education: A case study in rural Terengganu, Malaysia
title_fullStr The trade-off between child quantity and child quality and the public provision of education: A case study in rural Terengganu, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The trade-off between child quantity and child quality and the public provision of education: A case study in rural Terengganu, Malaysia
title_sort trade-off between child quantity and child quality and the public provision of education: a case study in rural terengganu, malaysia
publisher Universiti Utara Malaysia
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