Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades …

invested in children (which in turn affect child mortality), we use a maximum likelihood method to model birth spacing and … child mortality as correlated processes while also allowing for family specific unobserved heterogeneity. Our estimates show …

and child vaccination) in the child mortality regression, we jointly estimate mother’s age at childbirth, hospital …This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing, parental use of health inputs and child mortality in … delivery, child vaccination and child mortality taking into account of unobserved mother level heterogeneity. There is evidence …

This paper examines the efffect of siblings on child mortality in the Indian state of West Bengal arguing that prior … estimates of child mortality largely ignore it. To correct for this possible endogeneity bias, we allow for family specific … unobserved heterogeneity and model birth spacing and child mortality as correlated processes within a sequential framework. These …

We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …

accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children …

examine whether these state-level mandates were successful in increasing fertility rates. Using a difference …