This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian …

can be explained in terms of reduction in child mortality due to the immunization program. Kumar (2009) finds that UIP has … a significant and negative eect on infant and under-five mortality. …

The present paper made an attempt to understand the impact schooling/education on the mortality rate in India, in a … developing country context. Present study aims at looking into differences in mortality rate by the status of completion of …

. Two aspects are central to the analysis: First, a mature AIDS epidemic causes massive premature adult mortality, thereby … disease, which depend heavily on parents' expectations about future mortality rates, are estimated for the years 2000 …-2040. Both human capital and per capita income grow significantly more slowly after the outbreak of the epidemic, while the …

We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural … productive assets; household members, land, and livestock. We find that prime-age adult mortality decreases the accumulation of …

The paper examines the effect of top income shares on the crude death and infant mortality rates. We use balanced panel … mortality rates. The most important finding is that there is no overall relationship between top income shares and mortality. If …

We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural … productive assets; household members, land, and livestock. We find that prime-age adult mortality decreases the accumulation of …

work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

malnutrition and child mortality, two key human development indicators. The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 illustrates … the main economic and social factors causing child malnutrition and mortality. Section 2 identifies the main clusters of …

largest increase in child schooling. We present suggestive evidence that falling mortality risk is strongly positively … population density is negatively related to fertility. Finally we show the robust negative correlation of mortality risk on child …