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 …

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 …

The present study investigates the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and mortality risk, using a large …. Initially, we intended to contribute to the understanding of system relations between SWB, mortality risk, and unobserved … heterogeneity in the mortality equation prevents us from employing this model. Given this limitation, the study examines three …

eventually can even fade out. This presents another possible explanation for the human mortality rate plateaus. …

The aim of our paper is to provide an answer to the questions if and why social differences in health and mortality … of event-history-analysis is used, and frailty models address mortality selection. A new method is developed to consider … systematic difference in the change of average frailty over age between social groups. SES differentials in mortality converge …