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Value of Children and the social production of welfare
2014
Demographic Research
BACKGROUND The paper describes the origins of the Value of Children (VOC) approach to the cross-cultural research on fertility behavior around the Pacific Rim, and critically discusses its shortcomings at this stage. OBJECTIVE The paper then demonstrates how the approach derives its theoretical coherence from the theory of social production functions, making reference to empirical evidence. RESULTS The VOC approach combines a multi-level and action-oriented theoretical model of generative
doi:10.4054/demres.2014.30.66
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