TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Maitra, Pushkar
AU  - Pal, Sarmistha
        TI  - Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh
        PY  - 2007/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2841
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2841
        AB  - This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where adolescent childbearing is of particular concern. We argue that effective use of specific health inputs could however significantly lower child mortality rates even among adolescent women. This offers an attractive policy option particularly when compared to the costly alternative of delaying age at marriage. In particular, we find that women having early childbirth tend to use health inputs differently from all other women. After correcting for this possible selectivity bias, the adverse effects of early childbirth on child mortality are reversed. The favourable effects of use of health inputs however continue remain statistically significant.
        KW  - family formation
KW  - adolescent childbearing
KW  - hospital delivery
KW  - child vaccination
KW  - child mortality
KW  - selectivity bias
KW  - unobserved heterogeneity
KW  - correlated estimates
        ER  -