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Type | Journal Article - Canadian Studies in Population |
Title | Intentional replacement of dead children in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ghana and Kenya |
Author(s) | |
Volume | 31 |
Issue | 1 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2004 |
Page numbers | 33-53 |
URL | http://www.canpopsoc.org/journal/CSPv31n1p33.pdf |
Abstract | This paper examines whether childhood deaths elicit an explicit, conscious and intentional fertility response using the 1998 Demographic and Health Survey data for Ghana and Kenya . Using multivariate hazard models, childhood mortality experience was found to have long term fertility implications beyond the short term physiological effects. In both countries, women who have experienced childhood mortality were found to have significantly higher number of additional children than those without. The death of the first child in particular was found to be associated with the risk of a higher order birth consistent with recent findings in Cameroon. The policy implications of the findings are discussed |
Related studies
» | Ghana - Demographic and Health Survey 1998-1999, Ghana, Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) |
» | Kenya - Demographic and Health Survey 1998, Kenya, Kenya. National Council for Population Development (NCPD), Kenya. Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) - Office of the Vice President and Ministry of Planning and National Development |
Gyimah, Stephen Oben, and Rajulton Rajulton. "Intentional replacement of dead children in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ghana and Kenya." Canadian Studies in Population 31, no. 1 (2004): 33-53.