early mortality. After adjusting for differences in demographics between the two populations, the study finds that people …

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades …

We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …

. The accelerated growth episodes observed in Brazil and China demonstrate that the increase in income inequality may have …

sector are under consideration in countries throughout the world. Brazil, though something of a latecomer to wider … infrastructure reform, has recently taken large steps in restructuring its railroad system. This paper analyzes Brazil's ongoing … railroad reforms, seeking to place them in the context both of the broader reform project going on in Brazil and of railroad …

States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations composed of entities (states or …