censuses and demographic surveys particularly the World Fertility Survey to ascertain trends in fertility and mortality. The … that fertility has increased in some countries--Kenya and Cameroon; has remained almost stable in Benin, Ivory Coast and … improvement in the socio-economic indicators i.e. education and health services; relaxation of traditional controls i …

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … arrived at the same conclusion. Within countries, just as at the cross-national level, child mortality has been found to be … the minority are studies of socioeconomic determinants of child mortality which have examined the association between …

This paper develops a theory of optimal fertility behavior under mortality shocks. In an OLG model, young adults … determine their optimal fertility, labor supply and life-cycle consumption with both exogenous child and adult mortality risks …. We show that a rise in adult mortality exerts an ambiguous effect on both net and total fertility in a general …

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …

Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This … adult height over aperiod of 150 years by distributing the measured adult height over the age distribution of the male … population. This calculation creates a measure of the age-distributed height of the laborforce, which then permits an analysis …

education, while there is a negative relationship between infant mortality and life expectancy. It also shows that an effect of … affecting life expectancy. The four factors chosen are as follows: infant mortality, educational attainment, electric power … electric power consumption on life expectancy is so weak. But infant mortality has the strongest effect on life expectancy in …