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

strongly linked in Africa. Unilateral causality is found from energy consumption to life expectancy and child under-5 mortality …We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy … for Senegal, Morocco, Benin, DRC, Algeria, Egypt, and South Africa. At the same time, we found a bilateral causality …

age-specific mortality rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life … recent widening of mortality rates between rich and poor due to lifestyle-related diseases does not explain much of the rise … poor, made initial differences in lifestyle-related mortality more consequential via survivability …

mortality. The authors test the hypothesis that selection during famine changes the frailty distributions of cohorts and may … hide negative long-term effects. They use death counts from age 60+ from the Human Mortality Data Base for the birth …. Statistically, long-term effects of famine on mortality become only visible when changes in the frailty distribution of cohorts are …

Since World War II, mortality has declined in the developing world. This paper examines the effects of this mortality … utility through its status. The decline in mortality stimulates investment and generates an income stream which promotes …-seeking is strong, then the decline of mortality decreases population growth below its original level …