Reproductive Response to Child Mortality: A Maximum Likelihood Estimation Model
儿童死亡后的生育反应:最大似然估计模型
The individual household's fertility response to an experienced child death, the replacement probability, is estimated for Brazil using a maximum likelihood estimation model. This model, which treats births, deaths, and replacement births as endogenous and which assumes discrete distributions for these random variables, avoids the statistical problems of earlier estimates. The model allows the distribution of births, deaths, and replacement births to vary with included…