Birth-spacing,fertility and neonatal mortality in India: Dynamics,frailty, and fecundity |
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Authors: | Sonia Bhalotra Arthur van Soest |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics, University of Bristol, 8 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TN, UK;2. Tilburg University, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | 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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Keywords: | I12 J13 C33 |
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