his paper uses data from Jordan’s 2007 Demographic and Health Survey to reassess the maindeterminants of child mortality in this middle-income country. Running different logit estimationsto allow for different time windows and sets of variables, we find that behavioural factors havegained importance, compared to the household and community factors that were found to beimportant in earlier studies. We conclude that once a country has passed a certain threshold inhousehold income, education and access to health care and safe drinking water, policies targetingbehavioural changes are the most promising for achieving further reductions in mortality rates