Women's status has received considerable attention as a significant factor in demographic
behavior and outcomes in South Asia however, little research has addressed the links …

Sex differences in mortality among historical populations are an intriguing yet neglected
issue. In mid-nineteenth-century England and Wales, although women and girls enjoyed an …

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1 II. WHY BIRTH SPACING MIGHT AFFECT PREGNANCY OUTCOMES, INFANT AND …

To examine the effects of birth spacing on early childhood mortality, 3729 singleton births in
1983–84 were followed for 3 years in rural Bangladesh. Logistic regression analyses were …

This study examines risk factors for infant mortality using individual-level data from a sample
of parishes in northern Sweden in the nineteenth century. Sweden is of particular interest …

Data from a range of environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly
distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death among siblings. A …

Neonatal mortality and stillbirths are recognised to be subject to similar influences, but
survival after a successful live birth is usually considered in isolation of foetal wastage …

A negative association between birth interval length and infant and child mortality has been
consistently identified in modern developing countries. The reasons for this association are …

This paper examines determinants of under-five mortality in Bangladesh. The study utilizes
the data extracted from the 2007 Bangladesh demographic and health survey. Chi-square …

The 1988 Malawi Traditional and Modern Methods of Child Spacing Survey data are used to
identify determinants of infant mortality in Malawi. The logistic binomial analysis shows that …