van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
Abstract: We jointly analyze infant mortality, birth spacing, and total fertility of children in a rural area in … estimated models show how fertility and mortality can be reduced by, for example, breaking the causal link that leads to a short … that if families would behave as if their all children were sons, fertility levels would be reduced by 3.5% and 5.7% in the …