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A General Age-Specific Mortality Model With an Example Indexed by Child Mortality or Both Child and Adult Mortality
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 1131–1159.
Published: 28 May 2019
.... Models that relate child mortality to mortality at other ages are important because almost all countries have measures of child mortality. A general, parameterizable component model (SVD-Comp) of mortality is defined using the singular value decomposition and calibrated to the relationship between child...
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View articletitled, A General Age-Specific <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Model With an Example Indexed by <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> or Both <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> and Adult <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1765–1790.
Published: 07 October 2019
..., provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Child mortality Maternal education Universal primary education Instrumental variable method Africa Child survival is a key...
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View articletitled, The Causal Effect of Maternal Education on <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment in Malawi and Uganda
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Maternal Reading Skills and Child Mortality in Nigeria: A Reassessment of Why Education Matters
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1551–1561.
Published: 17 April 2013
...Emily Smith-Greenaway Abstract Mother’s formal schooling—even at the primary level—is associated with lower risk of child mortality, although the reasons why remain unclear. This study examines whether mother’s reading skills help to explain the association in Nigeria. Using data from...
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View articletitled, Maternal Reading Skills and <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in Nigeria: A Reassessment of Why Education Matters
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Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1521–1549.
Published: 10 July 2013
... over women’s life course and investigate the relationship between single motherhood and child mortality in 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Although a mere 5 % of women in Ethiopia have a premarital birth, one in three women in Liberia will become mothers before first marriage. Compared...
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View articletitled, Single Motherhood and <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
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Marital Fertility Decline in the Netherlands: Child Mortality, Real Wages, and Unemployment, 1860–1939
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 965–988.
Published: 20 June 2012
..., the decline in religiosity appears to be mostly a cohort effect (Argue et al. 1999 ; Chaves 1989 ; te Grotenhuis and Scheepers 2001 ; Tilley 2003 ; Voas and Crockett 2005 ). 30 4 2012 20 6 2012 © Population Association of America 2012 2012 Marital fertility Child mortality Real...
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View articletitled, Marital Fertility Decline in the Netherlands: <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>, Real Wages, and Unemployment, 1860–1939
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The effects of kin on child mortality in rural gambia
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Rebecca Sear; Fiona Steele; Ian A. McGregor; Ruth Mace Abstract We analyzed data that were collected continuously between 1950 and 1974 from a rural area of the Gambia to determine the effects of kin on child mortality. Multilevel event-history models were used to demonstrate that having a living...
View articletitled, The effects of kin on <span class="search-highlight">child</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> in rural gambia
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Erratum to: Can Disease Specific Funding Harm Health? Child Mortality in the Shadow of HIV/AIDS Service Expansion
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1701.
Published: 25 September 2015
...? Child Mortality in the Shadow of HIV/AIDS Service Expansion Springer sincerely regrets this typesetting error. ...
View articletitled, Erratum to: Can Disease Specific Funding Harm Health? <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in the Shadow of HIV/AIDS Service Expansion
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Integrating Space With Place in Health Research: A Multilevel Spatial Investigation Using Child Mortality in 1880 Newark, New Jersey
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 811–834.
Published: 25 April 2014
... inference and misleading results. In this article, we propose an integrated multilevel spatial approach for Poisson models of discrete responses. In an empirical example of child mortality in 1880 Newark, New Jersey, we compare this multilevel spatial approach with the more typical aspatial multilevel...
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View articletitled, Integrating Space With Place in Health Research: A Multilevel Spatial Investigation Using <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in 1880 Newark, New Jersey
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Intra-Ethnic diversity in hispanic child mortality, 1890–1910
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 467–475.
Published: 01 November 2000
... high child mortality in the Hispanic population, higher than for non-Hispanic whites but not significantly different than among nonwhite non-Hispanics (mostly African Americans). Hispanic rural farm populations in California, Texas, and Arizona experienced high mortality, but not as high as other...
View articletitled, Intra-Ethnic diversity in hispanic <span class="search-highlight">child</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span>, 1890–1910
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Estimating the Effect of Child Mortality on the Number of Births
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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...
View articletitled, Estimating the Effect of <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> on the Number of Births
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Measuring the impact of child mortality on fertility: A methodological note
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 581–590.
Published: 01 November 1977
...Anne D. Williams Abstract Recent studies of the impact of child mortality on children ever born have used the “replacement factor” to measure mortality. When microlevel data are used, however, use of the replacement factor (or other variables which are nonlinear in the family’s experienced child...
View articletitled, Measuring the impact of <span class="search-highlight">child</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> on fertility: A methodological note
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Levels and Patterns of Infant and Child Mortality in Ghana
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Demography (1975) 12 (1): 21–34.
Published: 01 February 1975
...S. K. Gaisie Abstract This paper attempts to measure infant and child mortality levels and also to determine their structure by utilizing the results of the 1968–1969 National Demographic Sample Survey which was conducted under the directorship of the author. Among the major problems encountered...
View articletitled, Levels and Patterns of Infant and <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in Ghana
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The impact of child mortality on spacing by parity: A Cox-regression analysis
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Demography (1984) 21 (3): 323–337.
Published: 01 August 1984
...Evelyn Lehrer Abstract Child mortality may affect spacing through biological and behavioral channels. The death of a child may elicit a desire to have another one soon; further, it may interrupt breastfeeding and shorten the sterile period following childbirth. The hypothesis that the child...
View articletitled, The impact of <span class="search-highlight">child</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> on spacing by parity: A Cox-regression analysis
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Evaluation of the Olsen Technique For Estimating the Fertility Response to Child Mortality
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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...
View articletitled, Evaluation of the Olsen Technique For Estimating the Fertility Response to <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>
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Differentials in infant and child mortality and their change over time: Guatemala, 1959–1973
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Demography (1983) 20 (4): 607–621.
Published: 01 November 1983
... of the Preston-Palloni technique was used. A major result is that differential child mortality widened appreciably between about 1959 and about 1968. Factors leading to mortality decline were possibly unequally spread by geographic region, rural-urban residence, ethnic groups, and educational groups. Guatemala...
View articletitled, Differentials in infant and <span class="search-highlight">child</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> and their change over time: Guatemala, 1959–1973
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Estimating seasonality effects on child mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 98–110.
Published: 01 February 1996
...Pradip K. Muhuri Abstract This paper estimates the net effect of seasonality on child mortality in Matlab. Results suggest that childhood mortality was well above the average monthly level in the hot, dry month of April and in November, the first harvest month of the aman crop. It was found...
View articletitled, Estimating seasonality effects on <span class="search-highlight">child</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> in Matlab, Bangladesh
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Birth spacing and child mortality in bangladesh and the Philippines
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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 305–318.
Published: 01 May 1992
..., once the confounding effects of prematurity are removed. The risks associated with short conception intervals are confined to children who are also high birth order; they persist in the presence of controls for prior familial child mortality, breast-feeding, mother’s age, and socioeconomic status...
View articletitled, Birth spacing and <span class="search-highlight">child</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> in bangladesh and the Philippines
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Retrospective evidence of a decline of fertility and child mortality in Bangladesh
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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 415–430.
Published: 01 August 1972
...T. Paul Schultz Abstract A detailed analysis of survey data collected in 1961–1962 for a sample of 4200 families in central East Pakistan produced consistent and reasonable estimates of birth and death rates for the preceding decade. Extremely high levels of infant and child mortality declined...
View articletitled, Retrospective evidence of a decline of fertility and <span class="search-highlight">child</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> in Bangladesh
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Reproductive patterns and child mortality in guatemala
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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 43–60.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Anne R. Pebley; Paul W. Stupp Abstract In this paper, we investigate the association of child mortality with maternal age, parity, birth spacing, and socioeconomic status, in a sample of Guatemalan children who were included in a public health intervention program. Our results indicate...
View articletitled, Reproductive patterns and <span class="search-highlight">child</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> in guatemala
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A hazards-Model analysis of the covariates of infant and child mortality in Sri Lanka
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Demography (1983) 20 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 February 1983
...James Trussell; Charles Hammerslough Abstract The purpose of this paper is twofold: (a) to provide a complete self-contained exposition of estimating life tables with covariates through the use of hazards models, and (b) to illustrate this technique with a substan-tive analysis of child mortality...
View articletitled, A hazards-Model analysis of the covariates of infant and <span class="search-highlight">child</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> in Sri Lanka
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