Volume 27 - Article 27 | Pages 775–834  

Intergenerational Transfers in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from Rural Malawi

By Iliana Kohler, Hans-Peter Kohler, Phil Anglewicz, Jere Behrman

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