We study the relationship between education and HIV status using nationally representative data from 39 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, we construct an innovative algorithm that systematically defines aggregate stages of the HIV epidemic in a comparable manner...

This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth (CIW) in three of the poorest countries in the world -- Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda -- all located in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Our first finding is that while income inequality is similar to...

Using detailed household-level data from Malawi on physical quantities of outputs and inputs in agricultural production, we measure total factor productivity (TFP) for farms controlling for land quality, rain, and other transitory shocks. We find that operated land size and capital are...