Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/28358 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1530
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
HIV/AIDS
prime-age mortality
per adult equivalent income
difference-in-difference
propensity score matching
spillovers
Zambia
JEL: 
I31
J19
C14
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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