This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian … health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

Although the effect of parents on their children has been the focus of much research on health and families, the … points to a novel channel through which policy makers may be able to influence health. …

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 …

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 …