Despite demographers’ long-standing preoccupation with the effects of child mortality on women’s fertility desires, scholars continue to know little about the consequences of other pervasive mortality exposures. We use nationally representative data from the high-mortality context of Peru to examine whether the desire to have a(nother) child varies as a function of sibling loss and to assess heterogeneity in this association by women’s current number of children and a range of conditions related to siblings’ deaths. Women who have experienced sibling bereavement and have two or more children report higher odds of desiring another child. These effects are not contingent on the age or sex of the deceased sibling but are only significant if the sibling died during the respondent’s lifetime (not before). These findings highlight the theoretical and empirical import of investigating the relationship between fertility desires and a wider range of familial mortality exposures beyond own child mortality.

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在秘鲁的高死亡率背景下，同胞丧失和生育的愿望。

尽管人口统计学家长期以来一直关注儿童死亡率对妇女生育欲的影响，但学者们对其他普遍的死亡率暴露的后果仍然知之甚少。我们使用来自秘鲁高死亡率的全国代表性数据来检验对生一个（另一个）孩子的渴望是否因同胞丧失而变化，并根据妇女目前的孩子数量和一系列条件评估这种关联的异质性与兄弟姐妹的死亡有关。经历过兄弟姐妹丧亲并生育两个或两个以上孩子的妇女报告称希望生育另一个孩子的几率更高。这些影响与死者兄弟姐妹的年龄或性别无关，但只有在兄弟姐妹在被访者的一生中（而不是之前）死亡时才有意义。