Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia

Child Marriage and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Ethiopia

This study uses age discontinuities in the degree of exposure to a law that raised the legal age of marriage for women from 15 to 18 years in some regions of Ethiopia to provide the first evidence on (a) the beneficial effects on child marriage and infant mortality of laws that ban underage marriage and on (b) the causal effect of delaying women's age at cohabitation on infant mortality using a...

Infant and Child Mortality in Ethiopia

ESTIMATING INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY IN IRAN, 1989

This paper presents estimates of infant and child mortality in the rural and urban areas of Iran for 1989. Data are from a one percent sample of the urban and rural population. The study makes use of data on the number of children born alive and children surviving, classified by age of the mother. Based on these data estimates of infant and child mortality for the urban and the rural areas...

child mortality rate in ethiopia

ethiopia's childhood mortality has continued to decline although at a swift pace. the drop in urban childhood mortality decline, duration of breastfeeding is the principle reason for the overall decline in mortality trends in ethiopia.  data from the ethiopian demographic and health surveys 2000 and 2005 were used. indirect estimation of brass and trussell's methods were adopted. selected demog...

Infant and Child Mortality

Since independence in 1947, Pakistan has experienced steady but modest declines in rates of mortality at all ages. Yet early childhood mortality remains high. The most recent source of child survival data before the 1990-91 PDHS was the multi-round Pakistan Demographic Survey (PDS), which estimated infant mortality at 110 per thousand live births for the 1984-88 period. The PDHS provides an opp...