TY - BOOK ID - 135109268 TI - Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS AU - Beegle, Kathleen AU - De Weerdt, Joachim AU - Dercon, Stefan PY - 2006 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Adult Mortality KW - Aids KW - Aids Epidemic KW - Brown Issues and Health KW - Childbearing KW - Communities & Human Settlements KW - Consumption KW - Demographic Impact KW - Demographics KW - Disease Control and Prevention KW - Diseases KW - Economic Status KW - Environment KW - Gender KW - Gender and Health KW - Health, Nutrition and Population KW - Heterosexual Contact KW - HIV KW - Housing and Human Habitats KW - Labor Policies KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Mortality of Men KW - Policy KW - Policy Research KW - Policy Research Working Paper KW - Poorer Populations KW - Population KW - Population Association KW - Population Policies KW - Poverty KW - Poverty Lines KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Progress KW - Rural Development KW - Rural Poverty Reduction KW - Social Protections and Labor KW - Urban Areas KW - Women UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135109268 AB - 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. ER -