Estimating the mortality cost of AIDS: do estimates of earnings differ?

Begley, C E; Crane, M M; Perdue, G · Am J Public Health · 1990

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Abstract

The future earnings of male Texans dying of AIDS in 1987 were estimated using: national earnings profiles; earnings derived from occupations listed on death certificates; and earnings reported by persons with AIDS who responded to a survey. Mortality cost estimates using the two sources of actual earnings differed by a modest amount in comparison to the estimate using national earnings profiles.

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