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Published: 01 October 2021
Fig. 1 Mean frequency of child death (top) and child survival (bottom) over the life course of two selected birth cohorts of women. The solid lines represent median values, and the bands represent the variability among countries in each region (40th and 60th percentiles). LATAM = Latin America. More
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Published: 01 December 2023
Fig. 1 The independent variable categorizing child death to assess alternative pathways between childhood mortality and fertility behavior. Mortality = categorical variable (ref. interval not exposed to mortality). Mortality 1 = the death of any previously born child prior to the birth More
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1715–1735.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Fig. 1 Mean frequency of child death (top) and child survival (bottom) over the life course of two selected birth cohorts of women. The solid lines represent median values, and the bands represent the variability among countries in each region (40th and 60th percentiles). LATAM = Latin America. ...
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Published: 01 October 2021
Fig. 3 Timing of child death over the life course for two female birth cohorts: first difference of child death (top) and burden of child death (bottom, in millions). The solid lines show the regional median and the bands the 40th and 60th percentiles within each region. LATAM = Latin America. More
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Published: 01 October 2021
Fig. 4 Relationship between the cohort burden of child death (vertical axis, median values in millions) and the size of cohorts. The cohort burden of child death is the number of child deaths accumulated by all women in a given birth cohort and region throughout their lives. The 45-degree line More
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Published: 25 April 2014
Fig. 3 Estimates of ED-level variations in the child death rates, split into a spatially structured component (top) and an unstructured component (bottom), from the empty multilevel spatial Poisson model More
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 347–371.
Published: 27 January 2020
... and regional prevalence of child bereavement. Findings indicate that the risk of IPV initiation rises with the death of children under age 5—for whom women are most intensely responsible—but not with the death of older children. The effect of young child bereavement is most pronounced in regions where...
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 805–834.
Published: 05 May 2016
... experience of child death and/or (2) alter their reports in the face-to-face interview. The study challenges the reliability of retrospective reports of pregnancy intentions in high-mortality settings and thus also our current knowledge of the levels and consequences of unintended pregnancies...
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Published: 25 April 2014
Fig. 2 Kernel density estimation of child deaths More
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Published: 27 January 2020
Fig. 3 Histogram of years from first death of a young child (under age 5) to IPV initiation, among women who experience both ( N = 1,455) More
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 437–457.
Published: 27 February 2014
...Ava Gail Cas; Elizabeth Frankenberg; Wayan Suriastini; Duncan Thomas Abstract Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely to be correlated with other, unobserved factors that affect child well-being. Population...
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Published: 01 October 2021
Fig. 2 Cumulative number of child deaths experienced by an average woman aged 65 in 2020 (i.e., born in 1955) in different countries. Higher values indicate a higher frequency of child death, conditional on the woman's survival to age 65. More
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 519–536.
Published: 01 November 1984
...Josephine Mauskopf; T. Dudley Wallace Abstract The observed joint distribution of births and child deaths for a cohort of women at a given point in time depends on the number of children that would have been born had the family experienced no deaths, the number of child deaths experienced...
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 329–339.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Stan Becker; Youssef Waheeb; Bothaina El-Deeb; Nagwa Khallaf; Robert Black Abstract To evaluate the completeness of registration of infant and child deaths in Egypt, reinterviews were conducted with families who had reported a death of a child under age 5 in the five years before the survey for two...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2169–2198.
Published: 15 September 2020
... in polygamous marriages relative to the death of a husband, and how marriage order affects the mortality of women in polygamous marriages. We also examine how the number of children ever born and child deaths affect the mortality of men and women as well as variation across monogamous and polygamous unions. Our...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 539–562.
Published: 01 April 2023
... data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS; 1992–2016, ages 51+; N = 23,228) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health; Waves I–V, ages 12–43; N = 11,088) to estimate the risk of exposure to the death of a mother, father, spouse, sibling, and child across...
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 391–405.
Published: 01 August 1983
...James Trussell; Randall Olsen Abstract In a previous issue of this journal, Olsen proposed a technique for quantifying the fertility response to child mortality. To estimate the extent of child replacement, one needs data only on the number of children ever born and the number of child deaths...
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 229–255.
Published: 26 September 2013
...Kelly M. Jones Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, 60 % of child deaths are preventable by investments in child health as simple as immunizations, bed nets, or water purification. This article investigates how a household’s decisions regarding such investments are affected by the size and gender...
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Demography (1980) 17 (4): 429–443.
Published: 01 November 1980
...Randall J. Olsen Abstract This article rigorously derives the properties of the regression of births on child deaths. It is shown how the raw regression coefficient may be corrected for the effects of fertility on mortality so that the rate at which dead children are replaced may be estimated...
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Demography (1986) 23 (1): 31–52.
Published: 01 February 1986
... of breastfeeding and pace of childbearing on mortality in infancy and early childhood, the mechanisms through which those effects operate, and the contingencies that strengthen or weaken them. The strong effects of both length of breastfeeding and the pace of childbearing on the risks of child death suggest...