is to determine the effect that schooling has on HIV/AIDS excess mortality, using panel data from South Africa. This … paper tests the hypothesis that schooling affects when and who one marries and thus impacts the risk of mortality from HIV … for women, who need to increase their time spent in the household. Thus, schooling may increase mortality risks due to the …

prevalence and schooling steepened as mortality risk increased. The reduction in schooling is largest for women, and along the … extensive margin of the schooling decision. The findings indicate that the decline in human capital investment associated with …

epidemic. Responding to these concerns, previous studies have investigated the schooling of orphans. Yet, few studies have … such a loss, and identified former orphans. Among individuals who started schooling before the Free Education Program …-orphans. We do not find a similar difference in education attainment among the younger cohorts, who started schooling after 1974 …

schooling but are by far more likely to fall below their appropriate grade. On the other hand, we find that all orphans …—regardless of cause of parental death are less likely to continue schooling and the gaps in enrollment decreases at higher levels of … household welfare status—poor orphans are significantly less likely to continue schooling. …

prevalence and schooling steepened as mortality risk increased. The reduction in schooling is largest for women, and along the … extensive margin of the schooling decision. The findings indicate that the decline in human capital investment associated with …