The Impact of Prime Age Adult Mortality on Child Survival and Growth in Rural Ethiopia

Suneetha Kadiyala, Agnes Quisumbing, Beatrice Rogers and Patrick Webb

World Development, 2009, vol. 37, issue 6, 1116-1128

Abstract: Summary Using Ethiopia rural household survey (ERHS) panel data set (1994-97), we evaluated the impact of prime age adult mortality on child survival and growth. We employed propensity score matching (PSM) with difference-in-difference (DID) estimators to control for endogeneity of adult mortality to child survival and growth. Bereavement (child living in a household with adult mortality) increased the probability of child mortality, with girls faring worse than boys. Bereaved boys and the poorest surviving bereaved children grew one third of a standard deviation slower than their matched non-bereaved counterparts in the same group. Preventing adult mortality is an important policy strategy to improve children's health and longevity.

Keywords: adult; mortality; child; mortality; child; growth; propensity; score; matching; Africa; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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