Working paper
Adult mortality and consumption growth in the age of HIV/AIDS
- Abstract:
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This paper uses a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both short and long-run consumption growth of surviving household members. Using unique data which tracks individuals from 1991 to 2004, we examine consumption growth, controlling for a set of initial community, household and individual characteristics; the effect is identified using the sample of households in 2004 which grew out of baseline households. We find robust evidence that an aff...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Not peer reviewed
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+ Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
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Funding agency for:
Dercon, S
Grant:
RES-000-22-1060
Bibliographic Details
- Series:
- CSAE working paper series
- Place of publication:
- http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/main-wps.html
- Publication date:
- 2007-01-01
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:2583
- Deposit date:
- 2009-02-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt & Stefan Dercon
- Copyright date:
- 2007
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