Affiliation:
1. Department of Economics Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee USA
Abstract
AbstractThe 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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