investigate whether the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the 1980s onward, a non-monetary shock, affected people's preferences for marriage …, especially for women. We also find evidence that the impact of HIV/AIDS on marriage disappeared once antiretroviral drugs were …HIV/AIDS was the main cause of death among young adults in the 1990s. The sexual freedom from the rise of …

in opposing forces on savings: mortality increases, which reduces savings, and long-term illness risk increases, which … increased mortality decreases the amount of savings and that having a high perception of HIV contamination risk increases …This paper studies the effect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behaviour. Two important characteristics of HIV result …

This paper models the effect of a HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behavior and studies the welfare effects of testing for … consumption after being tested HIV positive. The paper describes different effects on aggregate savings according to different … stages of the epidemic. We show that the HIV epidemic decreases savings if especially young individuals are (perceived to be …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and … premature mortality, and raise the share of mothers who are unwed and the share of children living in below-poverty, single …