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

Bibliographic Data

ID4362016
AuthorsKathleen Beegle (0000-0002-7080-7411), Joachim De Weerdt (0000-0002-5572-3332), Stefan Dercon (University of Oxford)
Year2008
Volume56
Issue2
Pages299-326
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/522895
OpenAlexW2170229364
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited19

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

Affect (linguistics) · Consumption (sociology) · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Panel data · Percentage point · Sample (material) · Socioeconomics · Tanzania · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology

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