Table 6.

Within Household Fixed Effects Logit for Mortality Between Ages 1 and 5

	Coef.	Z-statistic
Daughter	0.55	350.77 **
No. of siblings alive at birth of child	−0.04	−32.07 **
Age of the child at interview (expected age for diseased child)	0.01	94.4 **
Daughter * Muslim	−0.73	−175.79 **
No. of women with more than one child borth 5–15 years prior to survey	19,305
No. of sibling groups used in analysis	491
Chi sq. (df=4)	233,770

Note: Analytic sample is limited to sibling groups in which at least one child died and one survived.

^*p < 0 .05;

^**p < 0.01.