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This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per capita incomes of surviving household members, using a large nationally representative sample of rural households from Zambia. To minimize selection bias that may arise because AIDS is likely to be the endogenous outcome of individual behavior, the authors employ a difference-in-difference propensity score matching estimator. Their main finding is that the death of a prime-age member has no significant impact on per-capita household income.