paper studies the effects of the program on neonatal mortality using district-level household survey data. We model … mortality using survival analysis, paying special attention to substantial heaping, a form of measurement error, present in the … different heaping mechanisms. Our empirical findings do not suggest a significant reduction of mortality in treated districts …

paper studies the effects of the program on neonatal mortality using district-level household survey data. We model … mortality using survival analysis, paying special attention to the substantial heaping present in the data. The main objective … estimator and provide a simple procedure to test whether the policy had (uniformly) reduced mortality. While our empirical …

A cornerstone of demographic transition theory is that declines in infant and child mortality plausibly explain the … logarithmic preference over surviving children, can generate this link …

This paper presents evidence on how mortality in Denmark is related to different socio-economic indicators. By use of … unique and extensive sample of the Danish population, we examine how mortality is related to factors such as education … different causes of death. This turns out to be of importance as some factors have unequal (and sometimes opposite) influence on …

probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the … veracity of expectations are due to the less educated and cognitively able responding less to changes in objective mortality …

actual mortality at the individual level. The results suggest longevity expectations do predict mortality reasonably well …

mortality, fertility rate and female education. We show that reduction in child mortality is best predicted by the level of GDP … in a country over the preceding 5 years. Fertility rate decreases when current or predicted child mortality is low, and …