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child accounts for 40% of child death clustering. Further, eliminating state dependence would reduce infant mortality among …Random-effect models have been useful in demonstrating how unobserved factors are related to infant or child death … clustering. Another potential hypothesis is state dependence whereby the death of an older sibling affects the risk of death of a …