higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …

We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …

cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … adults’ willingness to pay for changes in child mortality and also to incorporate the welfare of future generations in the … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern … about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality and technological progress which change endogenously during the …

-level information on the intensity of the conflict, we examine the impact of the civil war on infant and child mortality. War exposure … mortality for the exposed and the unexposed birth cohorts. We find large positive effects of exposure to the conflict on infant … and child mortality. Moreover, restricting our sample to the survivors, we find that child mortality is significantly …

the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in … endogenous variables across countries. The results suggest that differences in extrinsic mortality might explain a substantial …

We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region …, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large rural-urban mortality difference exists, but much more … so for boys than for girls. A higher education level of the mother reduces mortality risk, but the effect is stronger for …