discriminatory practices affected fertility and sex-specific mortality during infancy and childhood during economic crises in an area … economic stress, fertility, and sex ratios at baptism: high-price years were followed by a decline in the number of registered … economic stress, mortality, and sex ratios at death. Using death registers further supports this interpretation, since our …

that women have historically experienced lower mortality rates than men. In this paper, we study a measure of the gender … gap in mortality rates, we call “Gender Gap Ratio”, across a wide range of ages and for four countries: France, Italy …

detailed analysis of mortality data an additional type of risk can be identified: differences in mortality improvements by … further investigate mortality improvements but rather relied on graphical representations without particular focus on … established. A simple criterion for identifying select cohorts is proposed and used here to what country mortality data reveals …

In this study, the causal nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption … running from fertility rate, food production index, GDP, and household final consumption expenditure to the mortality rate … shocks in the food production index, while 2% of future fluctuations in mortality rate are due to shocks in fertility rate …

"quality" of offspring. According to this theoretical model, the overall impact of mortality shocks on fertility is …The effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on fertility in Africa remains ill understood. To align the contrasting findings … fertility impacts are conditional on income levels. We use African panel data to test the implications of the model, and find …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

datasets studied, and fertility and mortality selection is found significant in the determination of child height in Zambia … children are choice-based, reflecting prior selective fertility and mortality behavior. Parameter identification is the most … serious practical problem in controlling for fertility and mortality selection. Identification is achieved by imposing a …

. Unfortunately, no benefits in terms of mortality are found. In fact, with few exceptions, both strictness and variability in NPIs …

longevity and falling fertility have resulted in a dramatic increase in the population of adults aged 60 and up, in both …