Humans, and many other species, suffer senescence: mortality increases and fertility declines with adult age. Some … species, however, enjoy sustenance: mortality and fertility remain constant. Here we develop simple but general evolutionary …

tempo under changing fertility and mortality that share a synthetic cohort interpretation with the adjusted measure of … quantum. I stress similarities between the results for fertility and mortality, particularly in terms of mean age of … childbearing and mean age at death, but also note some important distinctions. I conclude that the fertility adjustments can help …

the developing worldcan be complicated by poverty differentials; many poor urban women experiencechild mortality burdens … as high as their rural counterparts. However, little is known about spatial inequalities of child mortality in cities of … limited by lack of spatial data. Calculating child mortality is a data intensive process, and due to financial and time …

and widowhood of the mother on children’s risk of mortality under age 5 and on the probability of their entering primary … both a high mortality risk and a low probability of child schooling. The death of the father also compromises child … schooling, but its effect on mortality risk is not significant. …

effects of grandparents in general and grandmothers in particular on child mortality. Multilevel event-history models were … used to test how the survival of grandparents in general influenced the survival of the children. Random effects were …

carried out in the early 2000s enables to re-estimate recent mortality levels in both countries. Vital statistics since the … 1980s are presented and discussed. Infant mortality is corrected according to sample surveys, and mortality above age 60 …

Okinawa, in order to explain the presence of large numbers of centenarians. The mortality crossover obtained by comparing … mortality rates in Okinawa and Japan could be attributed either to different behavior of the generations born before and after …