achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … adults’ willingness to pay for changes in child mortality and also to incorporate the welfare of future generations in the … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

aim of our research is to analyze the trends of specific demographic parameters regarding mortality and fertility, jointly … prevail or if marked differences persist. As the paths of mortality and fertility in fact differ deeply over space and time …Recent years are characterized by both a rise in life expectancy and a further fall in fertility in the developing …

. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and … die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality … that life expectancy at birth is a poor indicator of population health unless morbidity falls with mortality. …

evolution of social disparities by analysing the trends in the Under-5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) by wealth level. It is common … knowledge that child mortality is higher among the poorest than the richest. However, the size of this mortality gap or the way … it varies in relation to the absolute level of child mortality is not as well known. This paper shows, based on a sample …

, historically, declines in mortality and fertility, and escape from the Malthusian trap, have required countries to have already … demography and development. In the last 50 years the world has seen an exogenous decline in mortality that generated a decline in … fertility and an increase in urbanization that has had profound economic, social and political consequences. However …