Ardington, et.al, 2014; the economic consequences of AIDS mortality in South Africa

[Feb, 24th. Simple regression model, meaningful data and topic]

This paper examines the impact of AIDS death,compared to sudden death and chronic death, on households’ socioeconomic wellbeing. The interesting perspective is to respectively examine the leading effect (expected AIDS death) and lagging effect (AIDS death already happened). Results show that households having experienced AIDS death are indeed poorer, but the link is not a one-way causal relation, but two-way interaction. Poorer families are also more likely to experience the death of family members, sosocioeconomic status before the happening of AIDS is also significantly lower.

Three key factors lying behind such a phenomenon in South Africa: one is the expense of funeral, secondly the costs spent curing the sick, and thirdly the epidemic property ofAIDS that may result in multiple AIDS deaths inside a household. And the stigma associated with AIDS might affect the costs of funerals.

Notice the including of time gap variables in the model, which is useful for similar study:

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