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                                                                                    <journal-title>Gazi Journal of Economics and Business</journal-title>
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                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2548-0162</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Aydın KARAPINAR</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.30855/gjeb.2019.5.3.001</article-id>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="en">
                                                            <subject>Economics</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Ekonomi</subject>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>Are Children a Normal Good or an Inferior Good? A Critique to the Neoclassical Theory</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>Çocuklar Normal Mal Mıdır, Yoksa Düşük Mal Mıdır? Neoklasik Teoriye Bir Eleştiri</trans-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8854-8737</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Sekmen</surname>
                                    <given-names>Fuat</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>SAKARYA ÜNİVERSİTESİ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20191024">
                    <day>10</day>
                    <month>24</month>
                    <year>2019</year>
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                                        <volume>5</volume>
                                        <issue>3</issue>
                                        <fpage>152</fpage>
                                        <lpage>159</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20190124">
                        <day>01</day>
                        <month>24</month>
                        <year>2019</year>
                    </date>
                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20190909">
                        <day>09</day>
                        <month>09</month>
                        <year>2019</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2015, Gazi Journal of Economics and Business</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2015</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Gazi Journal of Economics and Business</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>Thisstudy analyzes the neoclassical theory on the demand for children. Neoclassicaltheory assumes that child demand is not different from a commodity demand. Theneoclassical theory takes child demand in the utility function, like any othercommodities. But, the demand for children is different from things whichincrease our utility; such as car, refrigerator, elevator, and other goods andservices, whose price is determined in the market through its sellers andbuyers. However, demand for children is determined by socio-cultural things. Itis certain that there is a relationship between economic growth and childrearing. For example, economic growth raises the cost of children due the timespent on child care becoming more valuable. But it cannot be called &quot;childdemand is an inferior good&quot;.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Buçalışma neoklasik teoriyi çocuk talebi üzerine analiz etmektedir. Neoklasikteori çocuk talebinin herhangi bir mal talebinden farksız olduğunuvarsaymaktadır. Bu bakış açısından hareketle çocuk talebi, diğer tüm mallargibi, fayda fonksiyonu içerisine dahil edilir. Ne var ki çocuk talebi faydamızıartıran araba, buzdolabı, asansör ve diğer mal ve hizmetlerden farklıdır, zirabu tür malların fiyatları piyasada satıcılar ve alıcılar tarafından belirlenir.Çocuk talebi ise sosyo-kültürel gerçeklikler tarafından tayin edilir. Ekonomikbüyüme ve çocuk yetiştirme arasında bir ilişki olduğu muhakkaktır. Örneğin,iktisadi büyümeyle birlikte çocuğa ayrılan vakit daha değerli hale geldiği içinçocuk maliyetini de artırmıştır. Yine de bu sonuç çocuk talebinin bir düşük malolduğunu göstermez.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Demand for children</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  desired family size</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Neo-classical approach</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  economic growth</kwd>
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                                                                            <kwd-group xml:lang="tr">
                                                    <kwd>Çocuk talebi</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  ekonomik büyüme</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  düşük mal</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  neoklasik yaklaşım</kwd>
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