title: Reproductive response to child mortality:  a maximum likelihood estimation model.
abstract: "The individual household's fertility response to an experienced child death, the replacement probability, is estimated for Brazil using a maximum likelihood estimation model.... The model allows the distribution of births, deaths, and replacement births to vary with included exogenous variables.  The replacement probabilities estimated for Brazil were between .4 and .9 and varied systematically with women's education, rural-urban residence, and household electrification.  Increased development was shown to be correlated with a lower number of surviving children."
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mauskopf
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D001938:Brazil; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004522:Educational Status; D005298:Fertility; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007843:Latin America; D008722:Methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009026:Mortality; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D013020:South America; D013223:Statistics as Topic
keywords: Americas; Brazil; Child Mortality; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Economic Development; Educational Status; Estimation Technics; Fertility; Infant Mortality; Latin America; Mathematical Model; Methodological Studies; Models, Theoretical; Mortality; Population; Population Dynamics; Reproductive Behavior; Research Methodology; Research Report; Residence Characteristics; South America