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 …

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 …

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

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 …