Transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to economies as large …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate … the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, we identify a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure, both …

centuries, thus pushing back the availability of age-specific mortality and life expectancy estimates nearly half a century … constructed using indirect census-based estimation methods. Infant and child mortality rates are estimated from the number of … children ever born and children surviving reported by women in the 1900 and 1910 Indian censuses. Adult mortality rates are …

remaining life expectancy and lower mortality risk relative to earlier time periods due to improvements in mortality. We examine … to determine what eligibility ages would be today and in 2050 if adjustments for mortality improvement were taken into … approximately 0.15 years annually. Failure to adjust for mortality improvement implies the percent of the population eligible to …

This paper looks at the fertility, mortality, and marriage experience of racial, ethnic, and nativity groups in the …-origin, and Amerindian populations. This has not been true for mortality. The black population has experienced absolute … convergence but relative deterioration in mortality (neonatal and infant mortality, maternal mortality, expectation of life at …

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

This paper explores the determinants of birthweight-specific neonatal mortality rates across States in the U.S. in 1980 … through the National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS). The NIMS links birth and death certificates for each state …, resulting in a data base with race-specific neonatal mortality rates by birthweight, and other characteristics. Using a reduced …