Kodzi, Ivy; Kravdal, Øystein - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 25, pp. 713-732
High parity tends to be associated with socioeconomic disadvantage, which is widely believed to be a risk factor for low birth weight. Using a fixed-effects approach (comparing children of the same mother born within the five-year period preceding Demographic and Health Surveys), this paper...