 Fertility-Mortality Interactions in South AfricaLata Gangadharan () and Pushkar Maitra No 701, Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne Abstract: Fertility and child mortality are supposed to have a two-way relationship. First, women who experience more child deaths go on to bear more children compared to women whose children survive. Second, the risk of children dying 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. We use a disaggregated measure of child mortality, which allows us to account for still births and child deaths before the age of 1 and between the ages 1-5 separately, thereby allowing us to isolate the different factors that affect child mortality at the different stages. To the best of our knowledge this particular disaggregation has not been used before. Our estimation results indicate that there is a significant two-way relationship between fertility and child mortality. We also find that improvements in mother's education significantly reduce both fertility and child mortality. Keywords: MORTALITY; CHILDREN; SOUTH AFRICA (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mlb:wpaper:701 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, 4th Floor, FBE Building, Level 4, 111 Barry Street. Victoria, 3010, Australia. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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