CAUSALITY BETWEEN INFANT MORTALITY AND FERTILITY IN TIME SERIES.

Title: CAUSALITY BETWEEN INFANT MORTALITY AND FERTILITY IN TIME SERIES.
Identifier: AAI8203344
identifier: 8203344
Creator: YAMADA, TADASHI.
Contributor: MICHAEL GROSSMAN
Date: 1981
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Economics, Labor
Abstract: The main focus of this dissertation is to empirically test causality between infant mortality and fertililty by using annual data on seventeen countries in Western Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania. The usual assumption of unidirectional causality from infant mortality to fertility is shown not to hold for most of these countries based on the techniques of Granger's and Sims's types of causality test. It is shown that infant mortality and fertility are not mutually independent at all, but jointly determined. Therefore, it is strongly suggested that one should estimate a fertility equation in which infant mortality rate is one of endogenous variables in a simultaneous equations system to avoid simultaneity bias.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Economics