Fertility - Mortality Interaction in South Africa.

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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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	Gangadharan, L. ; Maitra, P.
Institutions:	School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Subject:	FERTILITY \| MORTALITY \| SOUTH AFRICA

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Series:	Sydney - Department of Economics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	23 pages
Classification:	J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior ; C31 - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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