,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available … mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations …A dynamic panel data model of neonatal mortality and birth spacing is analyzed, accounting for causal effects of birth …

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 …

Modeling mortality and longevity risk presents challenges because of the impact of improvements at different ages and … the existence of common trends. Modeling cause of death mortality rates is even more challenging since trends and age … effects are more diverse. Despite this, successfully modeling these mortality rates is critical to assessing risk for insurers …

Mortality rates have shown significant improvements in countries around the world over a lengthy period. Trends have … understanding of the underlying changes in mortality rates and provides information about potential future improvements. This paper … provides an analysis of mortality rate age patterns and trends for the main causes of death (circulatory system, cancer …

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

Population ageing is the 21st century's dominant demographic phenomenon. Declining fertility, increasing longevity, and …

This study presents an analysis of trends in mortality differentials and life expectancy by average relative earnings … for male Social Security-covered workers aged 60 or older. Mortality differentials, cohort life expectancies, and period … mortality improvement than the bottom half. The sample is expected to be selectively healthier than the general population …

This paper models relationships between trends in cause of death mortality rates for five main causes of death … (USA, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, Italy, Norway, Sweden, UK). Trends and relationships between mortality … for long-run relationships between variables and common stochastic trends. The paper demonstrates that mortality rates by …

trends, we implement an overlapping generations model with heterogeneity by level of education in which individuals optimally …