-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this …"Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self … finding and assess its robustness to the assumptions routinely made in measuring health and welfare. They find that the …

"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …, focusing on grandparents who are older and may be less able to financially support orphans than working-age adults. However …

economic and social development. What factors contribute to the excessive mortality, ill health, and disability in Russia …The poor health status of Russia's economically active adult population-its human capital-is imperiling sustainable …, particularly among working-age adults? What are the demographic, social, and economic consequences of this phenomenon? Most …

demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the … population. Data collected by the 2000 Demographic and Health Survey indicate that although there were more deaths across 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 …

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

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