This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian …

The paper examines the effect of top income shares on the crude death and infant mortality rates. We use balanced panel … mortality rates. The most important finding is that there is no overall relationship between top income shares and mortality. If …

We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural … productive assets; household members, land, and livestock. We find that prime-age adult mortality decreases the accumulation of …

work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

malnutrition and child mortality, two key human development indicators. The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 illustrates … the main economic and social factors causing child malnutrition and mortality. Section 2 identifies the main clusters of …

largest increase in child schooling. We present suggestive evidence that falling mortality risk is strongly positively … population density is negatively related to fertility. Finally we show the robust negative correlation of mortality risk on child …

can be explained in terms of reduction in child mortality due to the immunization program. Kumar (2009) finds that UIP has … a significant and negative eect on infant and under-five mortality. …

estimation of mortality using the capital city of 22 OECD countries from the period 1990 to 2008. The empirical results provide … strong evidences that higher income and a lower unemployment rate could reduce mortality rates, while the increases in … precipitation and temperature variation have significantly positive impacts on the mortality rates. The effects of changing average …

importance of secularly declining young adult mortality risk for producing secularly declining fertility and a sudden decline in …

This paper disc;usses socioeconomic mortality differentials in Pakistan on the basis of data collected in 1979 from a …, land holding, tenurial status, and the mortality experience of households. The mortality data obtained from the PLM survey … are discussed briefly in the first section of the paper; Mortality differentials by characteristics of the child, mother …