Symposium on Interactions between Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS

Symposium on Interactions between Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS

This article uses a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both the short- and long-run consumption growth of surviving household members. Using unique data that tracks individuals from 1991 to 2004, we examine consumption growth, controlling for a set o...

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Main Authors: Beegle, Kathleen, De Weerdt, Joachim, Dercon, Stefan
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Health Production I120
Economic Development: Human Resources
Human Development
Income Distribution
Migration O150
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5399
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spelling okr-10986-53992021-04-23T14:02:22Z Symposium on Interactions between Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS Beegle, Kathleen De Weerdt, Joachim Dercon, Stefan Health Production I120 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 This article uses a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both the short- and long-run consumption growth of surviving household members. Using unique data that 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 that grew out of baseline households. We find robust evidence that an affected household will see consumption drop 7% within the first 5 years after the adult death. With high growth in the sample over this time period, this creates a 19 percentage point growth gap with the average household. There is some evidence of persistent effects of these shocks for up to 13 years, but these effects are imprecisely estimated and not significantly different from zero. The impact of female adult death is found to be particularly severe. 2012-03-30T07:32:38Z 2012-03-30T07:32:38Z 2008 Journal Article Economic Development and Cultural Change 00130079 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5399 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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topic Health Production I120
Economic Development: Human Resources
Human Development
Income Distribution
Migration O150
spellingShingle Health Production I120
Economic Development: Human Resources
Human Development
Income Distribution
Migration O150
Beegle, Kathleen
De Weerdt, Joachim
Dercon, Stefan
Symposium on Interactions between Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
relation http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
description This article uses a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both the short- and long-run consumption growth of surviving household members. Using unique data that 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 that grew out of baseline households. We find robust evidence that an affected household will see consumption drop 7% within the first 5 years after the adult death. With high growth in the sample over this time period, this creates a 19 percentage point growth gap with the average household. There is some evidence of persistent effects of these shocks for up to 13 years, but these effects are imprecisely estimated and not significantly different from zero. The impact of female adult death is found to be particularly severe.
format Journal Article
author Beegle, Kathleen
De Weerdt, Joachim
Dercon, Stefan
author_facet Beegle, Kathleen
De Weerdt, Joachim
Dercon, Stefan
author_sort Beegle, Kathleen
title Symposium on Interactions between Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
title_short Symposium on Interactions between Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
title_full Symposium on Interactions between Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
title_fullStr Symposium on Interactions between Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
title_full_unstemmed Symposium on Interactions between Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
title_sort symposium on interactions between poverty and hiv/aids: adult mortality and consumption growth in the age of hiv/aids
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5399
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