Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid population … estimation (particularly of the effect of the child mortality variable) by deploying exogenous variation in the ecology of …

This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in …

frequently. These mortality effects diminish with age, potentially reversing at older ages as a result of disease immunity or …

mortality, fertility, and the economy in the short and medium run. The role of nonpharmaceutical interventions in shaping those …

constant income and population is achieved through equilibrating adjustments in "positive checks" (mortality, starvation) and … Asian economies, have experienced steady income growth accompanied by sharply falling fertility and mortality rates. We … economic stagnation with high fertility and mortality and constant population and income, as predicted by Malthus, but also for …