Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive … effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …, the negative effect of social security on fertility tends to erode the system's own contributory base, because it reduces …

This paper analyzes the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality and real wages in Sweden during the …

measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … and over time. Our estimates indicate that the FMP caused large declines in mortality rates across all age groups with … teenagers. Furthermore, the results are suggestive that the program has also contributed towards equalization in the mortality …

replacement level of fertility two decades ahead of the all-India target year of 2011 and India is likely to achieve the …

measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … and over time. Our estimates indicate that the FMP caused large declines in mortality rates across all age groups with … teenagers. Furthermore, the results are suggestive that the program has also contributed towards equalization in the mortality …

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 … is weakly dependent on female education and economic growth. As fertility drops, GDP increases producing a cycle that …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …