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Birth-spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India: Dynamics, frailty, and fecundity Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Bhalotra, Sonia
Soest, Arthur van
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Using microdata on 30,000 childbirths in India and dynamic panel data models, we analyse causal effects of birth-spacing 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.
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Volume (Year): 143 (2008)
Issue (Month): 2 (April)
Pages: 274-290
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