AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

NBER Working Paper No. 12181
Issued in May 2006

---- Acknowledgements -----

I thank Emily Oster, Rodrigo Soares, two anonymous referees, and the seminar participants at Bilkent University, Brown University, Harvard University School of Public Health, METU, and participants of the 2005 conference on \Health, Demographics and Economic Development" at Stanford University, of the 2006 AIDS Workshop at Amsterdam Institute for International Development for valuable comments and suggestions. I thank Ms. Laura Heaton of the Health Studies Branch, Population Division, the U.S. Bureau of Census for providing her HIV estimates. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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