This paper provides strong evidence that adult mortality has a negative impact on children educational outcomes, both … over the short and the long run, in rural Madagascar. The underlying longitudinal data and the difference …, robustness, and long-run persistence of effects. Results show that orphans are on average 10 pp less likely to attend school than …

the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in … endogenous variables across countries. The results suggest that differences in extrinsic mortality might explain a substantial …

The objective of this study is to analyze the pattern and risk factors of all-cause and externalcause mortality among … socioeconomic determinants of all-cause and externalcause mortality in India. The male disadvantage in external-cause mortality is … higher than in all-cause mortality. For all-cause mortality, caste and household wealth quintile (WQ) are significant …