The question of interest therefore is whether the presence of other women in the conjugal unit could mediate the presumed health advantages of marriage. [...] This resulted in a total of 8864 observations from the 2214 children in the 1998 sample, and 10,940 observations from the 2735 children in the 2003 sample. [...] The coefficients in the multivariate models are to be interpreted as the effects of a given variable on the log odds of dying. [...] In the multivariate analysis thus, the risk of death is modeled as a function of polygamy net of the control variables. [...] The significance of the interactions terms suggests that the while polygamy generally associates with higher mortality in childhood, the risk is highest in the later childhood.
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