Table 1.
Descriptive statistics by area, Matlab, 1982–2005.
Fig 1.
Infant mortality and preceding birth interval.
Note: lowess uses the Stata command for local weighted (nonparametric) regression, with default settings.
Fig 2.
Birth intervals by survival status and gender of previous child, icddr,b area.
Fig 3.
Birth intervals by survival status and gender of previous child, comparison area.
Fig 4.
The sequence of events.
Table 2.
Log likelihoods (LL), Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) of alternative model specifications.
Table 3.
Parameter estimates based on benchmark model in comparison area, n = 32,366.
Table 4.
Benchmark model, comparison area: Estimated covariance structure of mother specific unobserved heterogeneity terms.
Table 5.
Simulations.