the 1999-2011 Ivorian political instability to identify its causal effect on children's schooling and child mortality. I … two years. In addition, results show that the Ivorian armed conflict increased the mortality of children under five by at …

several administrative sources, containing a near-universe of records on mortality (1994-2011), cancer diagnoses (1982 …-2009). We find no significant long-term effects on mortality, cancer or emergency hospital visits. In contrast, we find …

Case and Deaton (2015) document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the … despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In contrast, average mortality for middle-aged men and women … continued to decrease in several other high-income countries including Germany. However, average mortality rates can disguise …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … Asia. We argue that these findings largely rely on the choice of the reference standard for sex-specific mortality and an … "Strom fehlender Frauen" bezeichnet werden, darauf hin, dass die geschlechtsspezifische Verzerrung der Sterblichkeit viel …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … Asia. We argue that these findings largely rely on the choice of the reference standard for sex-specific mortality and an …

, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than … comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women … reference standard for sex-specific mortality from rich countries that is inappropriately applied to settings in developing …

apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries …. Contrary to the existing literature, they find that the problem of gender bias in mortality is as severe among adults as it is … among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …

children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it … different stock and flow measure results rely on the choice of the reference standard for mortality and an incomplete correction …

We present a new way to model age-specific demographic variables with the example of age-specific mortality in the U … jointly with the latent variables underlying mortality of all age classes. In contrast to previous models, a similar … forecasts for particular age classes. A structural analysis of the relationship between age-specific mortality and covariates is …