The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality …

fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational mobility, looking for structural breaks associated with the French …

What would a hypothetical one million US deaths in the Covid-19 epidemic mean for mortality of individuals at the … population level? To put estimates of Covid-19 mortality into perspective, we estimate age-specific mortality for an epidemic … can be valued at six to 10 trillion dollars. The age-patterns of Covid-19 mortality observed in other countries are …

remaining life expectancy and lower mortality risk relative to earlier time periods due to improvements in mortality. We examine … to determine what eligibility ages would be today and in 2050 if adjustments for mortality improvement were taken into … approximately 0.15 years annually. Failure to adjust for mortality improvement implies the percent of the population eligible to …

This paper presents and critically discusses a vast array of evidence on the determinants of mortality reductions in … in income and nutrition. We then characterize the age and cause of death profile of changes in mortality and ask what can …

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 …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate … the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, we identify a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure, both …