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Uncovering the Effect of the HIV Epidemic on Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Malawi

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Durevall, Dick (Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University)
Lindskog, Annika () (Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University)

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In many Sub-Saharan countries the HIV epidemic has spread to over 10% of the working-age population, and is likely to affect economically relevant behaviour. We evaluate the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the reproductive behaviour for women in Malawi, allowing for a heterogeneous response depending on age and prior number of births. HIV/AIDS increases the probability that a young woman would give birth to her first child, while it decreases the probability to give birth of older women or of young women who have already given birth. The resulting change in the distribution of fertility across age groups is likely to be more demographically and economically important than changes in the total number of children a woman gives birth to.

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Paper provided by Göteborg University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers in Economics with number 318.

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Length: 37 pages
Date of creation: 16 Sep 2008
Date of revision: 28 Oct 2008
Handle: RePEc:hhs:gunwpe:0318

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Keywords: AIDS; Demographic Transition; HIV; Fertility; Malawi;

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I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
O12 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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