Lesotho; and has slightly declined in Ghana. The underlying factors with regard to the apparent increase hinge on the …

panel data set of firms in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania that spans a period of five years. We find that the main determinant of …

the usefulness of frailty models in exploring the childhood mortality-fertility relationships using DHS data from Ghana … multivariate results demonstrated that models without unobserved heterogeneity tended to produce biased estimates. Comparing Ghana …, the fertility response to mortality was found to be larger in Ghana, perhaps suggesting a negative relationship between …

instance, affect the risk of a higher order birth? These questions are examined using DHS data from Ghana and Kenya. At each …