The impact of child mortality on spacing by parity: A Cox-regression analysis |
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Authors: | Lehrer Evelyn |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60680-4348, Chicago, Illinois ; |
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Abstract: | Child mortality may affect spacing through biological and behavioral channels. The death of a child may elicit a desire to have another one soon; further, it may interrupt breastfeeding and shorten the sterile period following childbirth. The hypothesis that the child mortality-spacing linkage varies across parities, being strongest in the middle parities, is examined using microdata from Malaysia and the Cox-regression technique. The empirical results lend support to the hypothesis. |
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