The post-2015 development includes level-end goals for both under-five and neonatal mortality to be obtained by 2030 …-five mortality have been cited as a cause for optimism. In this paper, we show that changes in mortality rates are subject to mean … reductions. Taking this into account in projecting mortality rates until 2030, we find that only very few countries in Sub …

The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the … reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in … as a health indicator variable. The multinomial logit results show that keeping all other factors constant, girls are 1 …

comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women …, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than … reference standard for sex-specific mortality from rich countries that is inappropriately applied to settings in developing …