Lammers, Judith; Meijdam, A. C.; Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2007
This paper models the effect of a HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behavior and studies the welfare effects of testing for … consumption after being tested HIV positive. The paper describes different effects on aggregate savings according to different … stages of the epidemic. We show that the HIV epidemic decreases savings if especially young individuals are (perceived to be …