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Title Agricultural Productivity and Mortality: Evidence from Kagera, Tanzania
Full text http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0pz2d563
Date 2009
Author(s) Ikegami, Munenobu
Abstract We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural production in Kagera, Tanzania, reducing total factor productivity. We also quantify how much this negative effect contributes to the decrease in long-term household agricultural income growth compared to the contribution of decreased accumulation of productive assets; household members, land, and livestock. We find that prime-age adult mortality decreases the accumulation of knowledge stock as total factor productivity and the contribution of this negative effect to the decrease in agricultural income growth is larger than the contribution of decreased accumulation of each productive asset.
Subject(s) mortality; human capital; HIV/AIDS; agriculture; total factor productivity; Tanzania; Social and Behavioral Sciences
Language english
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Format application/pdf
Source Ikegami, Munenobu. (2009). Agricultural Productivity and Mortality: Evidence from Kagera, Tanzania. UC Berkeley: Center for Effective Global Action. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0pz2d563
Rights public
Identifier qt0pz2d563
Repository Berkeley - University of California
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