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 …

This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education … survival, a decline in an exogenous mortality rate reduces precautionary demand for children and increases parental investment … in each child. Once mortality is endogenized, population growth becomes a hump-shaped function of income per capita. At …

This paper examines the efffect of siblings on child mortality in the Indian state of West Bengal arguing that prior … estimates of child mortality largely ignore it. To correct for this possible endogeneity bias, we allow for family specific … unobserved heterogeneity and model birth spacing and child mortality as correlated processes within a sequential framework. These …