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

Rui Huang, Lilyan Fulginiti and E. Wesley Peterson
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Rui Huang: University of California-Berkeley

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Abstract: A three period overlapping generations model is developed to investigate the impact of shorter life expectancy due to 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 even more pronounced for the African continent than for the rest of the world.

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; Africa; life expectancy; growth; overlapping generations. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 O47 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-02-28
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