and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

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 …

individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the …

identify the effect of temperature on fertility. We demonstrate that warm (25-30°C) and hot days (>30°C) decrease total … fertility rate (TFR) in Spain, and that the estimated decrease is higher than the effects estimated in previous literature for … fertility such as population ageing …

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment …

fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and … independently from fertility decline. Finally, we assess the state and quality of evidence of these relationships and propose …

Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these … the following associations: (i) a one-child decrease in the total fertility rate corresponds to a 2 percentage point (pp …

on March 15, 2020 on local excess mortality in the following weeks. We exploit heterogeneity across municipalities in …

We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in … significant mortality reduction. Despite the absence of antibiotics and most vaccines, we find the results to be largely driven by …

Case and Deaton (2015) document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the … despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In contrast, average mortality for middle-aged men and women … continued to decrease in several other high-income countries including Germany. However, average mortality rates can disguise …