, based on the 1977 Lesotho Fertility Survey. The study showed that infant mortality, despite an erratic trend, fell over time …This study is an examination of effects of parental education and demographic factors on infant mortality in Lesotho … risk of mortality than the lower birth orders. However, high death rates were not caused by birth order per se, but because …

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 …

fertility outcomes in Indonesia. Using panel data and a sibling fixed effects model, we identify this relationship based on … potential channel for this result is that women respond by changing their fertility behavior. While surviving the death of a … sibling has little effect on desired fertility levels, we find evidence that surviving sisters start a family about 3-4 years …

There is considerable uncertainty about how reproductive factors affect child mortality. Joint determinants are … diverging results. According to very simple models estimated from DHS data from 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, mortality is … birth order, have high mortality. Net of such age and birth order differences, a short preceding birth interval is …

daughters' fertility. To account for the endogeneity of parental death, we exploit the timing of deaths in a difference …-in-differences research design. Parental death has no statistically significant effect on daughters' fertility, even in situations where the … loss of informal childcare should be particularly pronounced. The absence of a fertility effect is strengthened by an …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also … becoming a teenage mother, and decrease fertility. …

Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second … fertility rates from the year of migration, survey measures of fertility norms and cohort fertility rates from the year of birth … identification. We find a statistically significant, sizeable and robust impact of country-of-origin fertility rates on fertility …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

Much of Africa has yet to go through a demographic transition; this Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility … to improve estimation of the effect of the child mortality variable on fertility by deploying exogenous variation in the … ecology of malaria transmission. Results show that child mortality is a powerfully robust driver of fertility behavior …

surveys in 1993-94 and 2004-05. Although total fertility rates have declined for the country as a whole and for all states …