children are choice-based, reflecting prior selective fertility and mortality behavior. Parameter identification is the most … serious practical problem in controlling for fertility and mortality selection. Identification is achieved by imposing a … random-effects structure on the error correlation matrix for the set of fertility, mortality and health behaviors. Fertility …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

incentivize mothers to utilize hospital or medical care for their children after the births and this may link the relationship …

infant and child mortality; the first issue concerns the extent to which human fertility is affected by the existence of (and … impact on the way the response of fertility to mortality is estimated. To the extent that behavior can affect infant and … child mortality, correlations between fertility and mortality may reflect underlying household preferences. Thus …

Emergency Transportation System (NETS) on neonatal and infant mortality and long-term impairments. We utilize gradual expansion …, using changing distance as an instrument. Improving access to delivering in a city with a NICU decreases 0-6-day mortality …