This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program, using municipality level … mortality data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, and individual level data from the Brazilian household survey. We estimate … the effects of the program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of …

In this paper, I examine differentials in under-five mortality for the state of São Paulo, Brazil, between urban and … inequalities in under-five mortality for urban areas. During the period 1970-1991, much of the infant and child mortality … transition unfolded in São Paulo. I investigate whether these improvements in mortality were accompanied by narrowing …

SME mortality factors ignores their characteristics. This paper discusses the relation between the SME mortality factors … mortality factors such as full time dedication, exercising operational activities and managerial roles, discipline, purchase … studies is the indication of an existing relation between mortality factors and the life cycle stages of SME, which evidences …

We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th … interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality penalty. Estimates suggest that a unit decrease in mortality rates … that individuals from lower socio economic groups had marginal effects of reduced infant mortality twice as large as those …