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In 1973, Hoffman and Hoffman issued a call for the study of the psychological costs and benefits that influence decisions about childbearing. This call prescribed an alternative to the then dominant demographic viewpoint that featured the social correlates of childbearing. The alternative featured the assumption that the positive (benefits) and negative (costs) consequences of childbearing for individual couples dictated the decisions that they made (see Newman and Thompson (1976) for examples of this line of research.)
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Beach, L.R., Morrison, D. (1989). Expectancy Theory and Image Theory in the Description of Decisions About Childbearing . In: Brinberg, D., Jaccard, J. (eds) Dyadic Decision Making. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3516-3_3
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