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 …

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 …

mortality are important determinants of fertility decline, while per-capita GDP has probably worked in the opposite direction … (Brueckner and Schwandt, 2015). Mortality is instrumented with the predicted mortality (Acemoglu and Johnson, 2007), and mothersí …