the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in … endogenous variables across countries. The results suggest that differences in extrinsic mortality might explain a substantial …

aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant …

We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region …, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large rural-urban mortality difference exists, but much more … so for boys than for girls. A higher education level of the mother reduces mortality risk, but the effect is stronger for …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis … and pandemic infant mortality during the 1957-58 outbreak. After Medicaid implementation, we find that better access to … insurance in high-eligibility states substantially reduced infant mortality during the 1968-69 pandemic. The reductions in …

to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …

Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the … determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two main results emerge from our reanalysis of their data: (1 …) correcting infant mortality counts reduces the estimated effect of filtration on infant mortality by two-thirds, from -43 log …

event history analysis, childhood mortality is shown to remain very high in the Nairobi informal settlements, especially … HIV AIDS pandemic is the risk factor associated to the mortality among children who have lost their mother. Our study also …

infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality—with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality.Our OLS results yield … suggestive evidence of a negative effect of the refugee shock on infant and child mortality. However, we find that this is a … instrument, we find no evidence of an effect on native mortality for any age group. We also analyze the pressure that the …