Household income and child survival
Ismail, A.F.; Casterline, J.B.; Cooksey, E.C.
Egypt demographic responses to modernisation: 279-313
1988
Document Number: 363315
Using data on household income from the Egyptian Fertility Survey of 1980, the effects of income on infant and early child mortality are analysed. The main conclusions may be summarized as follows: no impact of household income on survival is evident during the first year of life, but the effects are pronounced during early childhood; the impact of household income on childhood mortality persists, with controls for all other variables incorporated in the analysis; the results suggest that the impact of income is greater for educated mothers, when the father is of higher socioeconomic status and where there is piped water to the dwelling; during infancy, the reproductive factors dominate, with only region of residence among the socioeconomic factors considered to be showing interpretable effects; and, finally, maternal schooling shows only modest effects on infant and child mortality.