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 … earthquakes: Gujarat, India, in 2001; North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in 2005; and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999. There is evidence of a …

As the first output from the gender and governance in rural services project, this report presents descriptive findings … and qualitative analysis of accountability mechanisms in agricultural extension and rural water supply in India, Ghana …, and Ethiopia, paying specific attention to gender responsiveness. The gender and governance in rural services project …

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

"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 …