Table 8.

Estimated hazard ratios from Cox proportional hazards models of transitions to first, second and third child by mother’s birth cohort (born before or after 1960), Demographic and Health Surveys in Latin American countries.

	First		Second		Third
	1960+	Before 1960	1960+	Before 1960	1960+	Before 1960
Woman:
Years of education	0.904 (77.35)	0.953 (16.39)	0.964 (22.16)	0.995 (1.74)	0.954 (21.11)	0.965 (10.98)
Rural	1.001 (0.037)	0.904 (2.81)	1.153 (9.99)	1.186 (5.74)	1.149 (7.09)	1.188 (5.84)
Electricity	0.930 (4.48)	0.961 (0.83)	0.876 (8.50)	0.894 (3.02)	0.830 (9.61)	0.849 (4.72)
Country
Unemployment (t-1)	0.986 (3.89)	1.001 (0.20)	0.983 (4.73)	0.996 (0.686)	0.987 (2.88)	1.016 (2.44)
Unemployment (t-2)	1.002 (0.64)	0.993 (1.15)	1.002 (0.44)	0.999 (0.131)	1.002 (0.41)	1.011 (1.76)
GDP per head growth (t-1)	1.008 (4.69)	0.997 (0.69)	1.005 (2.86)	0.999 (0.246)	1.003 (1.32)	0.996 (1.09)
GDP per head growth (t-2)	0.999 (0.58)	1.001 (0.17)	0.998 (1.33)	0.996 (1.12)	1.004 (1.75)	1.007 (2.13)
Joint significance of unemployment lags (p- value)	36.50 (0.000)	1.35 (0.509)	60.60 (0.000)	0.76 (0.683)	21.43 (0.000)	20.81 (0.000)
Observations	633697	72224	165187	47464	135792	68829

Notes:

The dependent variable is the number of years to a birth from either age twelve or the previous birth. Models include two lags of inflation rates, country dummies, time trend, age at first birth (for 2^nd and 3^rd births), months between 1^st and 2^nd birth (for 3^rd birth) and gender of previous children.

Errors allow for correlation in unobservables between observations from the same region-year. Robust t-statistics in parentheses.

Source: As for table 4.