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addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality …
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and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …
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, child mortality and others factors that affect these outcomes. To improve data reporting, data collection needs to be …
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"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of such projects, and an important input into decision making. These analyses, however, often fail to monetize the benefits of reduced death and injury. The authors review the...
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demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the …
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"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of …
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high and selective mortality had a major impact on the population structure of Cambodia. Fertility and marriage rates were … 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 …
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