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Adult Mortality, AIDS, and Fertility in Rural Malawi
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- Durevall, Dick, 1954 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Centrum för globalisering och utveckling (GCGD),Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik,Gothenburg Centre for Globalization and Development (GCGD),Department of Economics
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- Lindskog, Annika, 1979 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik,Centrum för globalisering och utveckling (GCGD),Department of Economics,Gothenburg Centre for Globalization and Development (GCGD)
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- 2016-08-30
- 2016
- English.
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In: The Developing Economies. - : Wiley. - 0012-1533 .- 1746-1049. ; 54:3, s. 215-242
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- The future course of fertility is a major determinant of economic development in many sub-Saharan countries, so understanding how HIV/AIDS affects childbearing is of great interest. We show that fertility responds negatively to female mortality and positively to male mortality and that the overall fertility response is small. The negative effect of female mortality is in line with earlier studies that only focus on women and their infection and mortality risks, while the finding of a positive effect of adult-male mortality is novel. One interpretation of this finding is that women who perceive a high risk of their husbands’ or grown-up sons’ deaths are likely to want to have more children to ensure future support.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- AIDS
- Demand for children
- Fertility
- HIV
- Old age security
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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