A simulation-based assessment of the bias produced when using averages from small DHS clusters as contextual variables in multilevel models

Demographic Research

Volumn 15, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-20

  Kravdal, Oystein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746411085     PISSN: 14359871     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2006.15.1     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Angeles, G., Guilkey, D.K., and Mroz, T.A. (1998). "Purposive program placement and the estimation of family planning effects in Tanzania." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93: 884-899.
2. DeRose, L. and Kravdal, Ø. (2006). "Educational reversals and first-birth timing in sub-Saharan Africa: A dynamic multilevel perspective." Forthcoming in Demography.
3. Goldstein, H. (1995). Multilevel Statistical Models, second ed. Arnold: London
4. Greene, W.H. (2003). Econometric analysis, 5th edition. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River (NJ).
5. Kravdal, Ø. (2002). "Education and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: Individual and community effects." Demography, 39: 233-250.
6. Macro International Inc. (1996). Sampling Manual. DHS-III Basic Documentation. No. 6. Calverton, Maryland.
7. Montgomery, M.R. and Casterline, J.B. (1996). "Social learning, social influence and new models of fertility." Population and Development Review, 22 suppl: 151-175.
8. Montgomery, M. and Hewett, P.C. (2005). "Urban poverty and health in developing countries: Household and neighborhood effects". Demography, 42: 397-425
9. Sampson, R.J., Raudenbush, S.W., and Earls, F. (1997). "Neighborhoods and violent crime: A multilevel study of collective efficacy." Science, 277: 918-924.