economic development. As predicted by unified growth theory, I find that primary schooling, rather than income or health …-related variables, is the most robust determinant of the fertility transition. As regards the health transition, both education and … income are significant determinants of mortality rates, but education alone accounts for the bulk of their time variation …

We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we … expectancy and positively related to infant mortality. However, in our preferred fixed-effects specification these relationships …

mortality of at least 50%. We reassess this claim using a four-pronged approach. First, we total smallpox deaths reported by two …. All four approaches lead to a similar conclusion. Mortality from smallpox was likely under 20%, which is much less than …

the first time a worldwide, long-running, consistent database, that mortality displays no trend during the Malthusian era …

the first time a worldwide, long-running, consistent database, that there was no trend in mortality rates during the …