Fertility - Mortality Interaction in South Africa

L. Gangadharan and Pushkar Maitra ()

Working Papers from Sydney - Department of Economics

Abstract: Fertility and child mortality are supposed to have a two-way relationship. First, woment who experience more child deaths go on to bear more children compared to women whose children survive. Second, the risk of children ying is higher among women who have been pregnant more times. Using a unit record data set from South Africa this paper examines the inter-relationship between fertility and child mortality.

Keywords: FERTILITY; MORTALITY; SOUTH AFRICA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 I12 C31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 1999

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