TY - BOOK AU - Kalemli-Ozcan,Sebnem ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - May 2006; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985-2000. Results differ depending on the variation used and the estimation method. Between estimates that exploit cross-sectional variation suggest a positive significant effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility, whereas within estimates that are identified of off time-series variation show both positive and negative results depending on the HIV/AIDS variable used. These within estimates are insignificant in most of the specifications UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w12181 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12181 ER -