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Estimating the mortality cost of AIDS: do estimates of earnings differ?
C E Begley1, M M Crane, G Perdue
1School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston 77225.
American Journal of Public Health
|October 1, 1990
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.