Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid population … estimation (particularly of the effect of the child mortality variable) by deploying exogenous variation in the ecology of …

Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985 …

of the mutation that causes sickle cell disease we measure the impact of malaria on mortality in Africa prior to the …We examine the effect of malaria on economic development in Africa over the very long run. Using data on the prevalence …. The reduction in malaria mortality has been roughly equal to the reduction in other causes of mortality. We then ask …

relationship between potential settler mortality and institutions. First, there is a general concern that there are high mortality … versions of his other critiques. His second argument that all the data from Latin America and much of the data from Africa … information on the mortality of Europeans in those places during the relevant period. His third argument that a "campaign" dummy …

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on … could settle in the colony. In places where Europeans faced high mortality rates, they could not settle and they were more … supporting these hypotheses. Exploiting differences in mortality rates faced by soldiers, bishops and sailors in the colonies in …

in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly … increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with non-crisis years. In late 1995-96 crisis, mortality rates … 0.4 percent increase in mortality for the elderly and a 0.06 percent increase in mortality for the very young. We find …

an individual accounts retirement program. I first estimate mortality differentials by gender, race, ethnicity and level … of education using the National Longitudinal Mortality Study and document substantial differences. I then use these …