This paper presents a fertility choice model in which the mortality rate is also endogenously determined and health … expenditure provides utility to individuals as well as affects the mortality rate. The analysis shows that the model predictions …

shows that parishes in counties with higher levels of smallpox mortality prior to the introduction of vaccination …Smallpox vaccination was the paramount medical innovation of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. We exploit the … introduction of the smallpox vaccine in Sweden to identify the causal effect of early-life mortality on fertility. Our analysis …

for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …

for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …

detailed analysis of mortality data an additional type of risk can be identified: differences in mortality improvements by … further investigate mortality improvements but rather relied on graphical representations without particular focus on … established. A simple criterion for identifying select cohorts is proposed and used here to what country mortality data reveals …

In this study, the causal nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption … running from fertility rate, food production index, GDP, and household final consumption expenditure to the mortality rate …. Evidence from the Variance Decomposition Analysis shows that, almost 6% of future fluctuations in mortality rate are due to …