to the next. We explore the differential exposure to HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa as a substantial health …) for 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that provide information on mother's HIV status and enable us to link mothers and … the intergenerational transfers: mother's HIV status and community HIV prevalence. First, we find that mothers transfer 37 …

The HIV epidemic has dramatically decreased labor supply among prime-age adults in sub-Saharan Africa. Using within …-country variation in regional HIV prevalence and a synthetic panel, I find that HIV significantly increases the capital-labor ratio in … urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV on average wages is positive but imprecisely estimated. In contrast, HIV has a …

, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A … recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that similar to the Black Death episode in Europe, HIV/AIDS will actually … rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys that link an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …