therise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger forthe decline in fertility and the …

We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and incomeusing panel cointegration techniques and … results are robust against alternative estimation methods, potentialoutliers, sample selection, dierent measures of mortality … the available data for the last century.Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account …

KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures …

obesity has occurred. This paper developsmodels of calorie demand and health supply, as reflected in aggregate mortality … goods and of wages reduces the macro demand for caloriesand supply of mortality associated with obesity, but other forms of … mortality are unaffected by theseprices. In the aggregate, caloric intake is a normal good, contributing to energy imbalance …

results. Contrary to Chakraborty’s analysis,high mortality yet high capital nations may not be able to escape the povertytrap …

/rural location in their rates and causes ofexcess mortality, and whether mortality gaps betweenimpoverished and other U …). Evidence based on more recent cohorts is mixed and suggests little, if any,mortality advantage for rural residents compared …

what might be inferred from contemporary descriptions of urban disamenities or from persistent differentials in mortality …

transitions. The model captures the intricate interplaybetween technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth …

We examine the relationship between common sources of airborne pollution and population mortality in present day … with excess deaths. We examine all cause mortality and deaths from specific cardiovascular and respiratory causes that are … associated with higher mortality rates. The size of the effects we find translates into around 4,500 deaths per annum.[...] …

Economic evaluation of projects involving changes in mortality risk conventionally assumesthat lives are statistical, i ….e., that risks and policy-induced changes in risk are small andsimilar among a population. In reality, baseline mortality risks …