Multilevel Modelling of Child Mortality in Africa

Kenneth Harttgen, Stefan Lang () and Judith Santer ()

Working Papers from Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck

Abstract: Whereas child mortality has been decreased globally in the last 20 years, high levels persist in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper analyzes child mortality in 25 Sub-Saharan countries based on household survey data. We employ a new multilevel approach with structured additive predictor within the Bayesian framework. This allows us to take into account the hierarchical data structure and use the heterogeneity within and between countries as well as to assess non-linearities in the relationship between child mortality and socio-economic determinants. We find that household's economic well-being, mother's education and age, and geographical regions strongly influence child mortality risks.

Keywords: Child mortality; Sub-Saharan Africa; multilevel STAR models; Bayesian inference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2015-02
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