ESTIMATING COST OF CHILDREN

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1990

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TANSEL, Aysıt

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It is well known to parents that raising children necessitates devotion of time and monetary expenditures. This study provides empirical evidence on the monetary cost of children in an urban setting in Turkey. For this purpose, Rothbarth's adult good method of estimating cost of children is used. Adult good Engel curves of five different functional forms are estimated using tobacco-alcohol, adult clothing and total adult expenditures. Households of couples and couples with children are compared. The results indicate that at the average total expenditure level one child costs approximately 23 percent of an adult couple, and that child costs increase as income rises.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111333

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