This paper explores the determinants of birthweight-specific neonatal mortality rates across States in the U.S. in 1980 … through the National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS). The NIMS links birth and death certificates for each state …, resulting in a data base with race-specific neonatal mortality rates by birthweight, and other characteristics. Using a reduced …

This paper looks at the fertility and mortality experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States from the … demographic behavior. There has been both absolute and relative convergence of fertility across groups. It has been of relatively … for mortality. The black population has experienced absolute convergence but relative deterioration in mortality (neonatal …

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

-specific policies introduced by competing risks of mortality. The incentive to invest in prevention against one cause of death depends … than the direct medical reduction in mortality: it affects the incentives to fight other diseases so the overall reduction … in mortality will, in general, be larger than that predicted by the direct medical effects. We discuss evidence of these …

, male health improvements delay the transition and the take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. According to …

Using micro-data from 48 developing countries, I document a recent reversal in the income-fertility relationship and … century's end, both patterns had reversed. Consequently, income differentials in fertility historically raised average …

back into the evolution of average fertility across generations. Theory predicts that changes in the relationship between …Fertility change is distinct from other forms of social and economic change because it directly alters the size and … composition of the next generation. This paper studies how changes in population composition over the fertility transition feed …

This paper examines the impact of New Deal relief programs on infant mortality, noninfant mortality and general … fertility rates in major U.S. cities between 1929 and 1940. We estimate the effects using a variety of specifications and … relief spending during the New Deal contributed to reductions in infant mortality, suicide rates, and some other causes of …

Transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to economies as large … the positive effects of demographic change during 1960-95. We also show how Ireland benefited from lower fertility in the …