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Does AIDS-Related Mortality Reduce Per-Capita Household Income? Evidence from Rural Zambia

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Toman Omar Mahmoud
Rainer Thiele

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This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per-capita incomes of surviving household members, using a large nationally representative sample of rural households from Zambia. To minimize selection bias that may arise because AIDS is likely to be the endogenous outcome of individual behavior, we employ a difference-in-difference propensity score matching estimator. We find that the death of a prime-age member has no significant impact on per-capita household income. This result continues to hold when we control for spillover effects by excluding households from the control group if members departed or joined for reasons related to AIDS. A likely explanation for this finding is that surviving household members pursue a mix of income and demographic coping strategies that prevents income losses in the short to medium run

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Paper provided by Kiel Institute for the World Economy in its series Kiel Working Papers with number 1530.

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Keywords: HIV/AIDS; prime-age mortality; per adult equivalent income; difference-in-difference; propensity score matching; spillovers; Zambia;

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I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare
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C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data

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