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 … interval after a child has died. Eliminating this effect would reduce fertility and increase birth intervals, resulting in a …