As income increases, the incentive for child quality raises so parents asymptotically prefer investments in child quality at the expense of a fixed number of births.
We associate child quality to nutrition and other parental investments targeted to lower mortality.
That urban residence and child quality preferences are more predictive in areas further East is suggestive of this.
One influential theory explaining the fertility transition is the changing parental investment strategies, as parents tend to invest more in child quality than in child quantity.
CHIP was the first national investment in child quality measures, and as such, the first investment in investigating and reducing disparities in children's care.
For every child, quality education and life skills.
We can speculate that parents can have different evaluations of their own child quality of life.
Lower parent-reported child quality of life was also associated with a lower parental MCS.
Furthermore, it includes a measure of global health related to child quality of life.
Potential mediating factors are; child quality of life, child general coping skills, child self-perception, parental stress, quality of parent-child interaction, and parental perceived vulnerability.
