[Institutional intervention in the reduction of fertility and infant mortality]

"This document discusses the impact of the social institutions in the childbearing experience of...families and the reproduction of...society. Despite the difficulties of empirically demonstrating the association of the macro and micro spheres, the paper presents evidence of the relationship, introducing the case of Ecuador, based on broad indices of fertility and child mortality.... The analysis utilizes the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), individual and community questionnaire." (SUMMARY IN ENG)