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Health and Growth: Causality through Education

Huang, Rui; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Peterson, E. Wesley F. - 2009

decisions and income growth of lowered life expectancy as a result of diseases such as HIV/AIDS. We show that an increased … probability of premature death leads to less investment in human capital, and consequently slower growth. We also empirically … investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa and the role of health in the level of educational …

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Investing in Hope: AIDS, Life Expectancy, and Human Capital Accumulation

Huang, Rui; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Peterson, E. Wesley - EconWPA - 2005

disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa … given the dramatic reduction in life expectancy due to HIV/AIDS and the potential lasting effects on growth. Our results … indicate that as life expectancy shortens so does schooling inducing a lower growth rate of income. These relationships are …

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The Impact of Life Expectancy in Human Capital Accumulation: AIDS

Huang, Rui; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Peterson, E. Wesley F. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2003

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Security of Widows’ Access to Land in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia (revised version)

Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Mason, Nicole M. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

The view that widows and their dependents face greater livelihood risks in the era of HIV/AIDS is indeed supported by nationally-representative survey results from Zambia. Efforts to safeguard widows’ rights to land through land tenure innovations involving community authorities may be an...

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HIV/AIDS and Agrarian Livelihoods in Zambia: A Test of the New Variant Famine Hypothesis

Mason, Nicole M.; Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

Since the southern African food crisis of 2001/02, the ‘new-variant famine’ (NVF) hypothesis first proposed by de Waal and Whiteside (2003) has become an important part of the conventional wisdom surrounding the relationship between HIV/AIDS and food crises in the region. The NVF hypothesis...

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A Test of the New Variant Famine Hypothesis: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia

Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Chapoto, Antony; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Replaced with revised version of paper 08/04/09.

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Why market institutions disfavor smallholder farmers’ compliance with international food safety standards: Evidence from Kenya, Zambia and Ethiopia

Okello, Julius Juma; Narrod, Clare A.; Roy, Devesh - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

This paper examines the high value chains (HVC) for green bean exports from Africa to identify the critical points at …

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A portfolio approach to mortality shocks and fertility choice : theory and evidence from Africa

Wang, Ruixin; Zhou, Yang; Bulte, Erwin H. - 2013

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Change of pace : accelerations and advances during the Millennium Development Goal era

McArthur, John W.; Rasmussen, Krista - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 105 (2018), pp. 132-143

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AIDS, longevity and long-run income

Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 13/15, pp. 2117-2125

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