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Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from the Irish Experience, 1845-1850.

Mokyr, J.; O Grada, C. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1999

It is commonplace to observe that one of the great changes of the modern age is not only that life expectancy is much longer than a century or two ago, but that there has been a radical change in the causes of death. Even in the nineteenth century, infectious disease was by far the biggest cause...

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After Diagnosis. HIV, the Prospect of Finitude, and Biographical Self-Construction

Rinken, S. - European Institute - Political and Social Sciences - 1997

How can individuals in contemporary Western societies constitute themselves as mortal beings? This question is addressed, in the following paper, on the basis of a series of interviews with Italian persons who have HIV or AIDS. Typically, at the time of diagnosis, the knowledge of having HIV was...

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WOMEN'S STATUS AND FERTILITY IN BENDEL STATE OF NIGERIA.

OKOJIE, C.E.E. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1990

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RETURNS TO WOMEN'S EDUCATION.

SCHULTZ, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1990

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Fertility and Child mortality in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Shultz, T.P.; Benefo, K. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1995

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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …

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Bayesian Demographic Modeling and Forecasting: An Application to U.S. Mortality

Reichmuth, Wolfgang; Sarferaz, Samad - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2008

We present a new way to model age-specific demographic variables with the example of age-specific mortality in the U … jointly with the latent variables underlying mortality of all age classes. In contrast to previous models, a similar … forecasts for particular age classes. A structural analysis of the relationship between age-specific mortality and covariates is …

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Consumption Smoothing and Excess Female Mortality in Rural India.

Rose, E. - Department of Economics, University of Washington - 1995

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Accounting for risky liabilities: evidence from UK pension plans

O'Brien, Chris - In: International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and … 4 (2007) 3, pp. 286-304

liabilities, with underestimates of likely future changes in mortality. The paper suggests improved disclosure together with the …

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Domestic and International Migration from Rural Mexico: Disaggregating the effects of network structure and composition

Davis, Benjamin; Stecklov, Guy; Winters, Paul - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2002

This article explores the role of migrant networks in Mexican rural out-migration focusing on how network composition influences rural-to-rural, rural-to-urban, and rural-to-international migration. Using data from rural Mexico, migration is considered in a multiple-choice context allowing for...

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