This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident …-related behavior, using data for the US, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, 1950-98. As predicted by the Convergence Hypothesis, gender …, for many types of accidents mortality, gender differences were stable or increased; these trends often resulted from the …

because the latter cohort lived some critical years of reproductive life during the Great Recession period. We then study how …

that the local government programs of health education and outdoor care of poor had the unintended effect of reducing … fertility. Fixed effects regressions indicate a $4 increase in per capita public health education spending or a $37 increase in … poor relief reduced the TFR by 0.1. This suggests that cities spending in the 75th percentile on health education …

those in Finland and the United States. Specifically, we assess whether the relationship between education and mortality is … modified by marital status. Although high education and being married are associated with lower mortality in all three … by education are largest for Bulgarian men, but in relative terms educational differences are smaller among Bulgarian men …

separated from leaving home in the USA. We also find a different impact of level of education and employment status on leaving …