Labor Effects of Adult Mortality in Tanzanian Households
Due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, sub-Saharan populations are challenged with increasing adult mortality rates that have potentially profound economic implications. Yet, little is known about the impact of adult deaths in African households. Using pane...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/05/5296537/labor-effects-adult-mortality-tanzanian-households http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18223 |
| Summary: | Due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic,
sub-Saharan populations are challenged with increasing adult
mortality rates that have potentially profound economic
implications. Yet, little is known about the impact of adult
deaths in African households. Using panel data from
Tanzania, this paper will explore how prime-age adult
mortality impacts the time allocation of surviving household
members and the portfolio of household farming activities.
Analysis of farm and chore hours across demographic groups
generally found small and insignificant changes in labor
supply of individuals in households experiencing a prime-age
adult death. While some farm activities are temporarily
scaled back and wage employment falls after a male death,
households did not shift cultivation towards subsistence
food farming and did not appear to have reduced their
diversification over income sources more than six months
after a death. |
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