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Women's schooling, the selectivity of fertility, and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa (Inglés)

This paper estimates the determinants of child mortality in the fourteen sub-Saharan countries for which Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data are available. It differs radically from the usual approach of estimating reduced-form equations of child mortality from samples of children by allowing for the possibility that such samples are choice-based, reflecting prior selective fertility decisions. If parents care about the health outcomes of potential...
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