title: Old age, risk, security and children:  an empirical evidence from rural India.
abstract: An investment model of the demand for children is developed to demonstrate that old-age security provided by children is an important consideration in the fertility decisions of parents.  "The paper is organized as follows: Section II presents the importance of children as a source of old age support and risk mitigating mechanism.  The investment approach for the demand for children is presented in Section III.  Section IV...explores the implications in the context of a recent household survey conducted in rural India.  Finally, the findings are summarised in Section V."
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authors.lastname: Lakshmanasamy
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001519:Behavior; D002648:Child; D003657:Decision Making; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D005298:Fertility; D007194:India; D009826:Old Age Assistance; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012424:Rural Population
keywords: Asia; Behavior; Child Worth; Decision Making; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Fertility; India; Microeconomic Factors; Old Age Security; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Rural Population; Southern Asia