, based on the 1977 Lesotho Fertility Survey. The study showed that infant mortality, despite an erratic trend, fell over time …This study is an examination of effects of parental education and demographic factors on infant mortality in Lesotho … risk of mortality than the lower birth orders. However, high death rates were not caused by birth order per se, but because …

that women have historically experienced lower mortality rates than men. In this paper, we study a measure of the gender … gap in mortality rates, we call “Gender Gap Ratio”, across a wide range of ages and for four countries: France, Italy …

Much of Africa has yet to go through a demographic transition; this Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility … to improve estimation of the effect of the child mortality variable on fertility by deploying exogenous variation in the … ecology of malaria transmission. Results show that child mortality is a powerfully robust driver of fertility behavior …

surveys in 1993-94 and 2004-05. Although total fertility rates have declined for the country as a whole and for all states …

its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …

OLG model, with endogenous fertility and longevity, the optimal age structure, identified by number-dampened total … exceeds the observed, especially due to a very low fertility. Introducing a preference for the population stock increases the …

endogenous fertility and longevity. The first-best solution for a number-dampened total social welfare function, including … preference for the population stock in the social welfare function increases fertility, but reduces individual utility, in the …

This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in …