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In this dissertation I study the consequences of the AIDS epidemic for economic development. To this purpose I build a population model that keeps track of the demographic transition by age-specific population groups relating the age distribution of the population of each period to the preceding one via a fertility process, a mortality process and an aging process. I integrate this population model into a standard theory of economic development that determines the income per capita path along the process of industrialization---a transition that structurally shifts capital and labor from a Malthusian-agricultural sector to a neoclassical-industrial sector. This way, I provide a tight structural relationship between the distribution of the population across age groups and the stage of economic development---in terms of income per capita and agricultural share of output. Then, I use this population model to consistently identify the main channels through which AIDS, raising mortality rates of young adults and lowering fertility rates, affects populations over time: (i) reshapes the age distribution of the population, thinning the ranks of working-age groups (the share of children and old adults per worker raises by as much as 20-25% in highly infected countries), (ii) reduces population growth (by as much as .08% per percentage point of HIV prevalence), and (iii) reduces life expectancy (by as much as 15-20 years). In addition, AIDS also (iv) reduces the individual labor efficiency of the sick with an aggregate loss of 0.3% per percentage point of HIV prevalence. When I incorporate the AIDS epidemic as in (i)-(iv) into a model economy calibrated to an African country unaffected by AIDS, I find that the AIDS epidemic reduces per capita income by as much as 12% at the peak of the epidemic. I find also that the AIDS epidemic slows down the transition from agriculture to industry by about one century for the most highly infected countries.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781243547972
  • Publisher: Proquest, Umi Dissertation Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Proquest, Umi Dissertation Publishing
  • Height: 246 mm
  • Weight: 340 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1243547979
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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