Relationships between infant mortality, birth spacing and fertility in Matlab, Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: Although research on the fertility response to childhood mortality is widespread in demographic literature, very few studies focused on the two-way causal relationships between infant mortality and fertility. Understanding the nature of such relationships is important in order to design effective policies to reduce child mortality and improve family planning. In this study, we use dynamic panel data techniques to analyse the causal effects of infant mortality on birth intervals and fertility, as well as the causal effects of birth intervals on mortality in rural Bangladesh, accounting for unobserved heterogeneity and reverse causality. Simulations based upon the estimated model show whether (and to what extent) mortality and fertility can be reduced by breaking the causal links between sho

SUBMITTER: van Soest A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5922575 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature