Saturday, May 2 / 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM   •   Sapphire Ballroom H

Session 207:
Early Life Health and Mortality in the Developing World

Chair: Paul Kowal, World Health Organization (WHO)
Discussant: Audrey Dorelien, University of Minnesota

  1. Association between Economic Growth and Infant Mortality: Evidence from 132 Demographic and Health Surveys from 36 Developing Countries • Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Swati Srivastava, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

  2. How Did Mortality Selection Change the Future of the Past? Consequences of Mortality Selection on Cohort Trends in Life-Course Mortality Patterns and Epidemiologic Transition • Hui Zheng, Ohio State University

  3. Elasticity of Economic Development and Child Mortality, 1950-2011 • Andrew Noymer, University of California, Irvine ; Danzhen You, Harvard University ; Haruka Hatori, University of California, Irvine

  4. Democratization and Cross-Country Differences in Infant Mortality Decline in Africa, 1980-2010: Evidence from Time Series Analysis • Moshi O. Herman, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

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