Fertility - Mortality Interaction in South Africa

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Fertility - Mortality Interaction in South Africa

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Gangadharan, L.
Maitra, P.

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Pushkar Maitra

Abstract

Fertility and child mortality are supposed to have a two-way relationship. First, woment who experience more child deaths go on to bear more children compared to women whose children survive. Second, the risk of children ying is higher among women who have been pregnant more times. Using a unit record data set from South Africa this paper examines the inter-relationship between fertility and child mortality.

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Paper provided by Sydney - Department of Economics in its series Papers with number 99-15.

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Length: 23 pages
Date of creation: 1999
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Handle: RePEc:fth:sydnec:99-15

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- L. Gangadharan & P. Maitra, 1999. "Fertility-Mortality Interaction in South Africa," Working Papers 9915, University of Sydney, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

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J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Production
C31 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models

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