demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the …

addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …

"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of …

and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …

contributes to the literature on the economic analysis of conflict. Using mortality data for siblings from the Cambodia … Demographic and Health Survey in 2000, he shows that excess mortality was extremely high and heavily concentrated during 1974 … educated background were more likely to die. Infant mortality was also at very high levels during the period, and disability …