The impact of HIV/AIDS on marriage in the early years of the epidemic

IF 2 3区医学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Health economics Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI:10.1002/hec.4828

Hasan Shahid

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Abstract

The advent of the HIV/AIDS crisis transformed the desirability of committed heterosexual relationships. This paper employs a difference-in-differences approach to investigate the impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis on marriage rates. By using HIV/AIDS death rates as a proxy for HIV incidence, the study exploits county-level variations in HIV/AIDS mortality and finds that counties with higher HIV/AIDS death rates experienced larger gains in marriage rates in the early years of the epidemic. Estimates suggest that the virus increased marriage rates by approximately 0.9% in the early years of the virus (1981–1988).

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艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行初期对婚姻的影响。

艾滋病毒/艾滋病危机的出现改变了坚定的异性关系的可取性。本文采用差分法研究艾滋病毒/艾滋病危机对结婚率的影响。通过使用艾滋病毒/艾滋病死亡率作为艾滋病毒发病率的替代指标，该研究利用了县级艾滋病毒/艾滋病死亡率的变化，发现艾滋病毒/艾滋病死亡率较高的县在该流行病早期的婚姻率上升幅度较大。据估计，在病毒流行的最初几年（1981-1988 年），结婚率大约提高了 0.9%。

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Health economics 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

4.80%

发文量

177

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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