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Birth Spacing and Child Survival : Comparative Evidence from India and Pakistan

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - 2014

This paper argues that the duration between successive children affects child survival (the sibling competition effect) while child survival too affects the duration between successive births (the child replacement effect). This inter-relationship is modelled in terms of a correlated...

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Birth spacing, fertility selection and child survival : analysis using a correlated hazard model

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - In: Journal of health economics 27 (2008) 3, pp. 690-705

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Birth spacing, fertility selection and child survival : analysis using a correlated hazard model

Maitra, Pushkar (contributor); Pal, Sarmistha (contributor) - 2007

If fertility reflects the choice of households, results of their choice (duration between successive births and health … overlook the effects of fertility selection on child health, this paper argues that not accounting for this selection issue … when we do not account for fertility selection. Additionally the correlated hazard estimates that we present here better …