fertility, migration, and mortality. Both disciplines share a common research object, namely human populations, and they focus …

. Prior researchers have speculated these programs contributed to the declining mortality rates during the 1920s, but have … child mortality. The effects are identified using the within variation for a panel of 68 cities over 10 years, with … estimates suggesting that it was primarily spending on health education which led to lower infant and child mortality during the …

While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the … past century marked changes have occurred in the country’s regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the … southern regions had the lowest. Today, this mortality pattern is reversed. In this paper, we study these long-term trends in …

mortality in children under the age of 15 years. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the contribution of both young and adult age …This study examines the variation in mortality and mortality trends among different regions in India since the 1970s … using data from the Sample Registration System (SRS). Evaluation of the SRS data quality confirms reliability for children …

beyond selection, origin or destination effects, and 2) on causes behind the mortality crisis in Russia by testing an …. Using RLMS data and Cox proportional hazard models, the results demonstrate that men were at greater risk of mortality when … they experienced downward mobility, relative to men who did not. Women’s mortality did not appear to be linked to downward …

The impact of SES on mortality is an established fact. I examine if this impact decreases with increasing age. Most … research finds that it does so but it is unknown whether this decrease is due to mortality selection. The data I use come from … mortality rates. My results show that socioeconomic mortality differences are stable across ages whereas they clearly decline …

Since gender-specific mortality differences are known a great deal of research has been conducted on this subject. The … resulting hypotheses for explaining male excess mortality can be sub-divided into two basic categories: the biological approach …). It has been proven impossible to explain the observed trends in mortality differences between women and men by relying …