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Birth-spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India: Dynamics, frailty, and fecundity by Sonia Bhalotra; Arthur van Soest is a Economics, Econometrics and Finance article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Birth-spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India: Dynamics, frailty, and fecundity about?
Using microdata on 30,000 childbirths in India and dynamic panel data models, we analyse causal effects of birthspacing on subsequent neonatal mortality and of mortality on subsequent birth intervals, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. Right censoring is accounted for by jointly estimating a fertility equation, identified by using data on sterilization. We find evidence of frailty, fecundity, and causal effects in both directions. Birth intervals explain only a limited share of the correlation between neonatal mortality of successive children in a family. We predict that for every neonatal death, 0.37 additional children are born, of whom 0.30 survive.
Who reads Birth-spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India: Dynamics, frailty, and fecundity?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Economics, Econometrics and Finance.
- Author
- Sonia Bhalotra; Arthur van Soest
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0304-4076)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)