Conventional wisdom attributes the severity of mortality in poorer countries to widespread poverty and inadequate … mortality. Endogenous mortality risk is introduced in a two-period overlapping generations model: probability of survival from … the first period to the next depends upon health capital that can be augmented through public investment. High mortality …

relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic … transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth …

The paper investigates whether self-assessed health status (SAH) contains information about future mortality and … contain private information for future mortality and morbidity. Moreover the extra information in SAH is greater at older ages …

the eighth week of life; results were extrapolated to the U.S. dairy population. Mortality of heifer calves was examined … according to region ( west, midwest, northeast, southeast ). Mortality was highest in the western region ( 9.1 percent ) and …

key dependent variables are not available in the data. It is shown that the out-of-hospital mortality rates can be … and out-of-hospital spells, the mortality rates before and after discharge as well as discharge and re … regarding mortality risks. …

We analyze the effects of neighborhood characteristics on the mortality of black male youth in families relocated … placement neighborhood characteristics were associated with lower male youth mortality rates after controlling for household and … important predictors of male youth mortality than characteristics related to race, poverty, or family composition. …