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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Impact of HIV/AIDS-Related Deaths on Rural Farm Households' Welfare in Zambia: Implications for Poverty Reduction Strategies
Autores: | Chapoto,   Antony; Jayne,   Thomas S.
Data: | 2009-10-28
Ano: | 2005
Palavras-chave: | Food security; Food policy; HIV/AIDS; Prime-age mortality; Endogeneity; Rural livelihoods; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Q18.
Resumo: | Using comprehensive rural farm household longitudinal data from Zambia, this paper  measures the impacts of prime-age (PA) adult morbidity and mortality on crop production and cropping  patterns, household size, livestock and non-farm income. The paper adopts and extends the  counterfactual (difference-in-difference) approach by controlling for initial (pre-death)  household conditions that may influence the severity of the impacts of adult mortality. In  particular, the study controls for initial poverty status, landholding size, effective dependency  ratios, and the gender and position of the deceased person. Moreover, the possibility that PA  death in the household is endogenous is taken into account by conceptualizing the measurement of  effects of prime-age adult death on rural agricultural households’ welfare as a two stage process:  first, by examining the characteristics of afflicted households; and second, conditional on being  afflicted, determining the effects of morbidity and mortality on indicators of household welfare  both prior to and after mortality. The findings from this study provide important information that  may assist governments, donors, and development planners in developing specific policies or  interventions to mitigate the impacts of the disease on vulnerable households.
Tipo: | Report
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/54473

Relação:

Michigan State University&gt;Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics&gt;Food Security Collaborative Working Papers

Food Security Research Project, Lusaka, Zambia, Working Paper

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