We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and incomeusing panel cointegration techniques and … the available data for the last century.Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account … for amajor part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The fertilityreduction triggered by …

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

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

We analyze the impact of short-run economic fluctuations on age-specific mortality usingBayesian time series … autoregressions of a latent mortality variable and of unemployment andGDP growth as main business cycle indicators. We find that young … adults noticeablydiffer from the rest of the population. They exhibit increased mortality in a recession,whereas most of the …

Schon die Betrachtung der Sterblichkeit der gesetzlich Rentenversicherten macht deutlich das Sozioökonomische Merkmale … großen Einfluss auf die Sterblichkeit nehmen, wie folgende denVeröffentlichungen zur Herleitung der Sterbetafel DAV2004R der …

Bfihlmann-Straub credibility is used to find an estimate of the mortality lossratio for a company, relative to a … deviation to be added to the mortality rate (in accordance with thegeneral principle of Canadian statutory valuation) is derived... …

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 …