The Impact of Exogenous Child Mortality on Fertility: A Waiting Time Regression with Dynamic Regressors
开发了一种计量方法，估计家庭层面的外生预期寿命成分，以确定生育率对外生儿童死亡率变化的反应，使用马来西亚家庭调查数据。
In this paper [the authors] develop and implement an econometric methodology estimating a family-specific exogenous component of life-expectancy in order to determine the responsiveness of fertility to exogenous changes in child mortality. [They] use a generalized waiting time regression model applied to length of life which is viewed as the output of a production process. [They] allow for family-specific heterogeneity in duration of life and for time-varying explanatory variables. The heterogeneity component retrieved from the production function estimation is used to estimate the impact of exogenous child mortality on a measure of fertility. The data concern 1938 children from 311 families included in the 1976 Malaysian Family Life Survey. This paper was previously published in Econometrica (Chicago Ill.) Vol. 51 No. 3 May 1983 pp. 731-49. (EXCERPT)