and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …

addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …

"A family preference for sons over daughters may manifest itself in different ways, including higher mortality, worse …

"An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback … demographic and economic data, and perform simulations for the period ending in 2100 under alternative assumptions about mortality … possible in view of Ethiopia's poverty and high background adult mortality, it does cause a permanent, downward displacement of …