The impact of child mortality on spacing by parity: a Cox-regression analysis.
Child mortality may affect spacing through biological and behavioral channels. The death of a child may elicit a desire to have another one soon; further, it may interrupt breastfeeding and shorten the sterile period following childbirth. The hypothesis that the child mortality-spacing linkage varies across parities, being strongest in the middle parities, is examined using microdata from Malaysia and the Cox-regression technique. The empirical results lend support to the hypothesis.
D000328:Adult; D001721:Birth Intervals; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005006:Ethnicity; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008296:Malaysia; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D012044:Regression Analysis