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Journal of African Economies Advance Access published online on February 21, 2008
Journal of African Economies, doi:10.1093/jae/ejn003
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The Impact of AIDS Mortality on the Distribution of Income in Côte d'Ivoire

Denis Cogneaua and Michael Grimmb,*

a IRD, DIAL, 4 rue d'Enghien, 75010 Paris, France
b Institute of Social Studies, Kortenaerkade 12, PO Box 29776, 2502 LT, The Hague, The Netherlands

* Corresponding author: Michael Grimm, Institute of Social Studies, Kortenaerkade 12, PO Box 29776, 2502 LT, The Hague, The Netherlands. E-mail: grimm{at}iss.nl

We build a micro-simulation model able to simulate over a 15 years' period the impact of AIDS on the distribution of income in Côte d'Ivoire. We focus on the labour supply effects of AIDS-induced mortality. We find that although the size of the economy in terms of total household income is reduced by about 6% after 15 years, average household income per capita, household income inequality and poverty remain almost unchanged. In contrast to an often heard argument, the population dependency ratio is not much modified by the AIDS epidemic. These conclusions do not seem to depend on the degree of heterogeneity and clustering of HIV/AIDS infections over the population.

JEL Classification: C15, D31, J10


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