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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 61–82.
Published: 14 January 2015
... women who report not wanting more children could have social privileges in acquiring medical services, abortion, and contraceptives; and if these women avoid births, the remaining unwanted births would appear less healthy. We find (1) no overall effect of unwantedness on child survival in rural...
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in Women's Experience of Child Death Over the Life Course: A Global Demographic Perspective
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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.
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Women’s autonomy and child survival: A comparison of muslims and non-muslims in four Asian countries
Demography (2003) 40 (3): 419–436.
Published: 01 August 2003
... the Muslim disadvantage in children’s survival. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2003 2003 Child Mortality Child Survival Muslim Woman Muslim Community National Family Health Survey Women s Autonomy and Child Survival 419 Demography, Volume 40-Number 3, August 2003: 419...
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 15–35.
Published: 01 February 1989
...John B. Casterline; Elizabeth C. Cooksey; Abdel Fattah E. Ismail Abstract This article uses household-level economic and fertility survey data to examine the relationship between household income and child survival in Egypt. Income has little effect on infant mortality but is inversely related...
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Demography (1990) 27 (4): 601–616.
Published: 01 November 1990
... countries, which also serve as indicators of migrant selection and adaptation. 9 1 2011 15 11 1989 15 4 1990 © Population Association of America 1990 1990 Child Mortality Birth Interval Child Survival Migrant Child Child Fosterage References Abu-Lughod , J...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 August 2004
... 1975 to 1989 . Bulletin of the World Health Organization , 70 , 657 – 66 . Monteiro C.A. , Zuniga H.P.P. , Benicio M.H.A. , & Victora C.G. ( 1989 ). Better Prospects for Child Survival . World Health Forum , 10 , 222 – 27 . Nguyen N.N. , & Wagstaff...
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 211–229.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Narayan Sastry Abstract This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between community characteristics, household attributes, and child survival in Brazil. The principal objectives are to investigate how the social and environmental context in which a child is raised affects his or her...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 531–558.
Published: 18 May 2011
... correlates of under-5 mortality, the urban advantage is greatly reduced and sometimes reversed. The results suggest that it may not be necessarily the place of residence that matters for child survival but, rather, access to services and economic opportunities. 16 3 2011 18 5 2011 ©...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1349–1370.
Published: 03 July 2019
... important for child survival. A detailed description of the theoretical mechanisms linking preceding birth intervals to children’s outcomes can be found elsewhere (Conde-Agudelo et al. 2012 ), but we briefly outline some of the leading explanations for why short birth intervals may be detrimental...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1687–1713.
Published: 01 October 2021
... risk of mortality, and the death of either reduces child survival up to six months before the death. References Anderson F. W. J. , Morton S. U. , Naik S. , & Gebrian B. ( 2007 ). Maternal mortality and the consequences on infant and child survival in rural Haiti...
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in The Impact of Childhood Mortality on Fertility in Rural Tanzania: Evidence From the Ifakara and Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems
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Published: 01 December 2023
Fig. 2 Relationship between subsequent birth interval length and child survival: 25,710 children born in Ifakara and Rufiji, Tanzania, 2000–2015. The analysis includes 15,291 mothers who were born in 1981–1984. The black line is the mean trend.
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in Agency in Fertility Decisions in Western Europe During the Demographic Transition: A Comparative Perspective
> Demography
Published: 09 January 2017
Fig. 1 Mean number of children ever born and indicators of child survival in Sweden, Spain, and the Netherlands by marriage cohorts 1870–1949. Mean is based on couples observed until the end of their reproductive history. Cohorts married in 1930–1949 are aggregated for Spain. Source: Sweden
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Demography (1990) 27 (3): 447–455.
Published: 01 August 1990
...Kim Streatfield; Masri Singarimbun; Ian Diamond Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that formal education of women results in increased child survival because of greater knowledge of the protective function of the major childhood immunizations. Education is also associated with greater...
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 329–339.
Published: 01 August 1996
... Agency for Public Mobilization and Sta- tistics (CAPMAS); Nagwa Khallaf, ARI Division, Child Survival Project, Ministry of Health; and Robert Black, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore. The authors would like to thank the several scores of CAPMAS staff...
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 325–339.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Emily Oster Abstract There is a population sex imbalance in India. Despite a consensus that this imbalance is due to excess female mortality, the specific source of this excess mortality remains poorly understood. I use microdata on child survival in India to analyze the proximate sources...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2337–2364.
Published: 01 December 2021
... closer together while maintaining or increasing child survival. We examine the impact of kin availability on couples' reproductive success in the early twentieth-century United States with a panel data set of over 3.1 million couples linked between the 1900 and 1910 U.S. censuses. Our results indicate...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 February 2002
... mother, maternal grandmother, or elder sisters had a significant positive effect on the survival probabilities of children, whereas having a living father, paternal grandmother, grandfather, or elder brothers had no effect. The mother’s remarriage to a new husband had a detrimental effect on child...
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 347–373.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Ronald D. Lee; Patrick R. Galloway; Eugene A. Hammel Abstract Change in marital fertility in 407 Prussian Kreise from 1875 to 1910 is modeled to depend on the gap between the number of desired surviving births, N*, divided by child survival, s, and the number that would be born under natural...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 699–724.
Published: 07 November 2012
... and the support and contact they receive from adult children in Egypt, where fertility is falling and sources of support at all life stages are in flux. Using data from a survey of older adults in Ismailia governorate, we consider parents’ past investments in childbearing, child survival, and children’s education...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 263–271.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Linda Eberst Dorsten; Lawrence Hotchkiss; Terri M. King Abstract An unresolved issue in research on child survival is the extent to which familial mortality risk in infancy is due to biological influences net of sociodemographic and economic factors. We examine the effect of consanguinity on early...
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