Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS

The authors use 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, they examine consumption growth, controlling for a set of in...

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Main Authors: Beegle, Kathleen, De Weerdt, Joachim, Dercon, Stefan
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
HIV
SEX
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/12/7249104/adult-mortality-consumption-growth-age-hivaids
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spelling okr-10986-88282021-04-23T14:02:41Z Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS Beegle, Kathleen De Weerdt, Joachim Dercon, Stefan ABSOLUTE VALUE ADULT MORTALITY AIDS EPIDEMIC CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CHILDBEARING COMMUNITIES CONSUMPTION CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION MODULES CRIME DATA SET DEATHS OF CHILDREN DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DISEASES DISTRICTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC INDICATORS ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STATUS ELDERLY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL QUESTION ENDOGENOUS VARIABLE ESCAPE POVERTY EXPENDITURE EXPLANATORY POWER EXPLANATORY VARIABLE EXTENDED FAMILY FAMILY MEMBERS FEMALES FERTILITY FINANCIAL CRISES FUTURE CONSUMPTION GENDER HEALTH CARE HETEROSEXUAL CONTACT HIGH GROWTH HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES HIV HIV INFECTION HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEY HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD INCOMES HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HUMAN CAPITAL ILLNESS ILLNESSES IMPACT OF AIDS IMPLICATIONS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION INCOME GROUPS INCOME GROWTH INCOME LEVELS INCOME SHOCKS INCREASED RATES INDIVIDUAL LEVEL LABOR MARKETS LEVEL OF CONSUMPTION LEVELS OF CONSUMPTION LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT LONGITUDINAL DATA LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS MACROECONOMICS MEASUREMENT ERROR MIGRANTS MIGRATION MORTALITY OF MEN MORTALITY RATES NATIONAL INCOME NATIONAL LEVELS NEGATIVE EFFECT NON-FOOD ITEMS NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUTRITION ORPHANS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR HOUSEHOLDS POORER POPULATIONS POPULATION ASSOCIATION POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES PROGRESS REGIONAL HOSPITAL REGRESSION RESULTS REGRESSION SAMPLE REMITTANCES RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SEX SEXUAL BEHAVIORS SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SMALLHOLDERS SPOUSES STATE UNIVERSITY URBAN AREAS VILLAGES VULNERABILITY The authors use 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, they 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. The authors find robust evidence that an affected household will see consumption drop 7 percent within the first five 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. 2012-06-22T19:20:00Z 2012-06-22T19:20:00Z 2006-12 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/12/7249104/adult-mortality-consumption-growth-age-hivaids http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8828 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4082 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Tanzania
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topic ABSOLUTE VALUE
ADULT MORTALITY
AIDS EPIDEMIC
CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
CHILDBEARING
COMMUNITIES
CONSUMPTION
CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE
CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
CONSUMPTION GROWTH
CONSUMPTION MODULES
CRIME
DATA SET
DEATHS OF CHILDREN
DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
DISEASES
DISTRICTS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMIC STATUS
ELDERLY
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
EMPIRICAL QUESTION
ENDOGENOUS VARIABLE
ESCAPE POVERTY
EXPENDITURE
EXPLANATORY POWER
EXPLANATORY VARIABLE
EXTENDED FAMILY
FAMILY MEMBERS
FEMALES
FERTILITY
FINANCIAL CRISES
FUTURE CONSUMPTION
GENDER
HEALTH CARE
HETEROSEXUAL CONTACT
HIGH GROWTH
HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES
HIV
HIV INFECTION
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD INCOMES
HOUSEHOLD LEVEL
HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HUMAN CAPITAL
ILLNESS
ILLNESSES
IMPACT OF AIDS
IMPLICATIONS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION
INCOME GROUPS
INCOME GROWTH
INCOME LEVELS
INCOME SHOCKS
INCREASED RATES
INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
LABOR MARKETS
LEVEL OF CONSUMPTION
LEVELS OF CONSUMPTION
LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS
LIVING CONDITIONS
LIVING STANDARDS
LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT
LONGITUDINAL DATA
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS
MACROECONOMICS
MEASUREMENT ERROR
MIGRANTS
MIGRATION
MORTALITY OF MEN
MORTALITY RATES
NATIONAL INCOME
NATIONAL LEVELS
NEGATIVE EFFECT
NON-FOOD ITEMS
NUMBER OF CHILDREN
NUTRITION
ORPHANS
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
PER CAPITA INCOME
POLICY RESEARCH
POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER
POOR HOUSEHOLDS
POORER POPULATIONS
POPULATION ASSOCIATION
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
PROGRESS
REGIONAL HOSPITAL
REGRESSION RESULTS
REGRESSION SAMPLE
REMITTANCES
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
SEX
SEXUAL BEHAVIORS
SIGNIFICANT EFFECT
SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE
SMALLHOLDERS
SPOUSES
STATE UNIVERSITY
URBAN AREAS
VILLAGES
VULNERABILITY
spellingShingle ABSOLUTE VALUE
ADULT MORTALITY
AIDS EPIDEMIC
CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
CHILDBEARING
COMMUNITIES
CONSUMPTION
CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE
CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
CONSUMPTION GROWTH
CONSUMPTION MODULES
CRIME
DATA SET
DEATHS OF CHILDREN
DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
DISEASES
DISTRICTS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMIC STATUS
ELDERLY
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
EMPIRICAL QUESTION
ENDOGENOUS VARIABLE
ESCAPE POVERTY
EXPENDITURE
EXPLANATORY POWER
EXPLANATORY VARIABLE
EXTENDED FAMILY
FAMILY MEMBERS
FEMALES
FERTILITY
FINANCIAL CRISES
FUTURE CONSUMPTION
GENDER
HEALTH CARE
HETEROSEXUAL CONTACT
HIGH GROWTH
HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES
HIV
HIV INFECTION
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD INCOMES
HOUSEHOLD LEVEL
HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HUMAN CAPITAL
ILLNESS
ILLNESSES
IMPACT OF AIDS
IMPLICATIONS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION
INCOME GROUPS
INCOME GROWTH
INCOME LEVELS
INCOME SHOCKS
INCREASED RATES
INDIVIDUAL LEVEL
LABOR MARKETS
LEVEL OF CONSUMPTION
LEVELS OF CONSUMPTION
LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS
LIVING CONDITIONS
LIVING STANDARDS
LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT
LONGITUDINAL DATA
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS
MACROECONOMICS
MEASUREMENT ERROR
MIGRANTS
MIGRATION
MORTALITY OF MEN
MORTALITY RATES
NATIONAL INCOME
NATIONAL LEVELS
NEGATIVE EFFECT
NON-FOOD ITEMS
NUMBER OF CHILDREN
NUTRITION
ORPHANS
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
PER CAPITA INCOME
POLICY RESEARCH
POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER
POOR HOUSEHOLDS
POORER POPULATIONS
POPULATION ASSOCIATION
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
PROGRESS
REGIONAL HOSPITAL
REGRESSION RESULTS
REGRESSION SAMPLE
REMITTANCES
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
SEX
SEXUAL BEHAVIORS
SIGNIFICANT EFFECT
SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE
SMALLHOLDERS
SPOUSES
STATE UNIVERSITY
URBAN AREAS
VILLAGES
VULNERABILITY
Beegle, Kathleen
De Weerdt, Joachim
Dercon, Stefan
Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
geographic_facet Africa
Tanzania
relation Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4082
description The authors use 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, they 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. The authors find robust evidence that an affected household will see consumption drop 7 percent within the first five 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 Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author Beegle, Kathleen
De Weerdt, Joachim
Dercon, Stefan
author_facet Beegle, Kathleen
De Weerdt, Joachim
Dercon, Stefan
author_sort Beegle, Kathleen
title Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
title_short Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
title_full Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
title_fullStr Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
title_full_unstemmed Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
title_sort adult mortality and consumption growth in the age of hiv/aids
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2012
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/12/7249104/adult-mortality-consumption-growth-age-hivaids
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8828
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