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Adult mortality and children’s transition into marriage

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Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
Sofya Krutikova (Oxford University)

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Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic outcomes including the timing of marriage. This paper examines marriage outcomes for a sample of children interviewed in Tanzania in the early 1990s and re-interviewed in 2004. We find that while girls who became paternal orphans married at significantly younger ages, orphanhood had little effect on boys. On the other hand, non-parental deaths in the household affect the timing of marriage for boys.

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Article provided by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany in its journal Demographic Research.

Volume (Year): 19 (2008)
Issue (Month): 42 (September)
Pages: 1551-1574
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Keywords: adult mortality; AIDS/HIV; marriage; orphans;

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J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
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  1. Alderman, Harold & Watkins, Susan Cotts & Kohler, Hans-Peter & Maluccio, John A. & Behrman, Jere R., 2000. "Attrition in longitudinal household survey data," FCND briefs 96, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). [Downloadable!]
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  2. Kathleen Beegle & Joachim De Weerdt & Stefan Dercon, 2006. "Orphanhood and the Long-Run Impact on Children," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 88(5), pages 1266-1272, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. de Walque, Damien, 2006. "Who gets AIDS and how ? The determinants of HIV infection and sexual behaviors in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3844, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
  4. Shelley Clark, 2004. "Early Marriage and HIV Risks in Sub-Saharan Africa," Working Papers 0406, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago. [Downloadable!]
  5. Beegle, Kathleen & De Weerdt, Joachim & Dercon, Stefan, 2006. "Adult mortality and consumption growth in the age of HIV/AIDS," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4082, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Toman Omar Mahmoud & Rainer Thiele, 2009. "Does AIDS-Related Mortality Reduce Per-Capita Household Income? Evidence from Rural Zambia," Kiel Working Papers 1530, Kiel Institute for the World Economy. [Downloadable!]
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