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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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mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility …. To get around the endogeneity issue between schooling and fertility preferences, the analysis uses the 1985 Kenyan …
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The analysis focuses on: (1) the study of population (development and impact on different sectors) and reproductive health issues, including the HIV/AIDS epidemic; (2) examination of institutional structures responsible for population and reproductive health issues; (3) the performance of the...
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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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