of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per …

"Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid population … estimation (particularly of the effect of the child mortality variable) by deploying exogenous variation in the ecology of …