the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …

composition of the population, and the associated fertility differential is crucial for understanding the economic and the … demographic transition. In the model, heterogeneous individuals make optimal decisions about fertility, education of their … children and type and intensity of investments in their own education. The interplay between different dimensions of mortality …

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

in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …

in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel …

Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries …. This paper examines African fertility using a panel data set of 47 Sub-Saharan countries between 1962 and 2003. Fixed and … results support Caldwell´s hypothesis and are generally supportive of hypothesis that a fertility transition is occurring. HIV …

,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available … mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations …A dynamic panel data model of neonatal mortality and birth spacing is analyzed, accounting for causal effects of birth …

growth accelerates fertility decline, but, in late 19th century Britain it slowed the reduction of infant mortality. … declining infant mortality and birth rates. Cities exhibited great and strongly correlated diversity in these rates. We … improvement to long-period infant mortality reduction. We also find the extension of basic literacy is related to increases in …

higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …