Child mortality in rural India
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Child mortality in rural India
This paper focuses on infant and child mortality in rural areas of India. We construct a flexible duration model, which allows for frailty at multiple levels and interactions between the child’s age and individual, socioeconomic, and environmental characteristics. The model is estimated using the Indian National Family and Health Survey 1998/1999. The estimation results show that socioeconomic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Population Economics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0933-1433,1432-1475
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-009-0290-3