This paper focuses on child mortality in rural India. It uses a flexible duration model framework to analyse data from the National Family Health Survey 1998-99.The estimation results show that socioeconomic factors have significantly different impact at different ages

one point and draw out implications from it for actionable policies to reduce child mortality. The one point is: “there is a world of difference between the proximate causes of a child’s death and policies that can influence these proximate causesâ€.