Ready-Willing-Able: Early childhood mortality decline in Turkey
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Tarih
2022
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Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
We test a conjecture to explain Turkey's decades-long 'underachievement' in early child mortality improvements. We argue that it is largely a consequence of cultural barriers to embracing available modern medical technology and healthcare practices. The empirical test rests on a reformulation of Coale's Ready-Willing-Able (RWA) framework for explaining fertility changes, which makes it suitable to understand mortality changes. We use structural equation modelling and Demographic and Health Surveys spanning 1993-2013 to estimate basic parameters of the reformulated framework. These parameters are then used to classify mothers into four groups with different configurations of RWA dimensions and different probabilities of adopting modern medical practices. We find that observed behaviours in these groups were consistent with RWA expectations. In addition, we find that an important contributor to Turkey's lagging mortality decline was a population distribution biased towards groups more reticent to adopting modern healthcare.
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Early Childhood Mortality, Underachievers İn Mortality, Lags İn Mortality, Ready-Willing-Able Framework, Cultural Resistance And Mortality Decline, Cultural Bottlenecks Delaying Mortality Transitions, Determinants, Infant
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Population Studies-A Journal of Demography
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Q2
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Q1
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76
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2
