In this paper we investigate the effect of stress on the survival probability using a child’s death as the triggering … that bereavement has a stronger impact on fathers, while we find only modest evidence for mothers. This is a novel and …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … death cause.The birth weight distribution does not vary over the business cycle. The association between birth weight … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Allowing for time-varying treatment effects, I find no impact … of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run and in particular for men. This is … effects of mental health support, I find that it lowers the mortality risk for women. The results for men point toward lower …

The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the … reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in … the analysis. Place of death, which indicates whether a person get medical help immediately before her/his death, is used …

and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of …

Using War Relocation Authority records linked to the Social Security Death Index, I investigate whether the internment … socioeconomic status families and internees incarcerated in cold climates drive almost the entire effect. Additionally, NCHS cause-of-death …

parental mortality. Results: Based on 7 measures of sex composition, we find no protective effect of sons in either China or … Taiwan. For example, in the 1989 Taiwan sample, the hazard ratio for maternal mortality associated with having an eldest son … is 0.979 (95% CI (0.863, 1.111). In Taiwan, daughters may have been more beneficial than sons in reducing mortality in …

children are choice-based, reflecting prior selective fertility and mortality behavior. Parameter identification is the most …This paper estimates the determinants of child mortality and child health allowing for the possibility that samples of … serious practical problem in controlling for fertility and mortality selection. Identification is achieved by imposing a …

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …