Kenya in the 1950s. This figure was based on comparative numbers from the 1948 and 1962 censuses, but they failed to take … the 1969 Kenya census, we have reconstructed the levels and patterns of mortality in the 1950s, and we show that mortality …

We revisit the effect of long run income growth on population fertility in some of the poorest countries in the world …. Using various fertility measures as outcomes, we find that long run income growth significantly and robustly reduces … fertility. Further analysis suggests that young women's fertility is particularly affected and that women's education; age of …