Search Results - subject:"Risky sex"

A quantitative theory of the HIV epidemic : education, risky sex and asymmetric learning

Aleman-Pericon, Christian; Iorio, Daniela; … - 2024

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A quantitative theory of the HIV epidemic : education, risky sex and asymmetric learning

Alemán, Christian; Iorio, Daniela; … - 2023

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Pornography usage during adolescence : does it lead to risky sexual behavior?

Mubasshera, Hamida - In: Health economics 33 (2024) 8, pp. 1682-1704

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A quantitative theory of the HIV epidemic : education, risky sex and asymmetric learning

Alemán, Christian; Iorio, Daniela; … - 2024

We explore learning about HIV infection odds from risky sex as a new mechanism explaining the Sub-Saharan Africa HIV … stage where agents are unaware of how risky sex causes infections, a learning stage where agents update beliefs on infection …

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The determinants of pornography actress production

Wang, Shinn-Shyr; Chou, Li-Chen - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 20, pp. 1486-1489

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Health, risky behaviour and the value of medical innovation for infectious disease

Chan, Tat; Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Papageorge, Nicholas W. - In: The review of economic studies 83 (2016) 4, pp. 1465-1510

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Risky sexual behavior and substance use among adolescents: A meta-analysis

Ritchwood, Tiarney D.; Ford, Haley; DeCoster, Jamie; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 52 (2015) C, pp. 74-88

This study presents the results of a meta-analysis of the association between substance use and risky sexual behavior among adolescents. 87 studies fit the inclusion criteria, containing a total of 104 independent effect sizes that incorporated more than 120,000 participants. The overall effect...

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Specificity of early movie effects on adolescent sexual behavior and alcohol use

O'Hara, Ross E.; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Li, Zhigang; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 96 (2013) C, pp. 200-207

. This study examined the concurrent influences of early (i.e., before age 16) MSE and MAE on subsequent risky sex and … risky sex and past month alcohol use at ages 18–21. For both men and women, MAE predicted alcohol use, mediated by age of … initiation of heavy episodic drinking (HED) and age of sexual debut; MAE also predicted risky sex via age of sexual debut. Among …

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What is more important for prostitute price? Physical appearance or risky sex behavior?

Chang, Hung-Hao; Weng, Yungho - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 2, pp. 480-483

, prostitutes charge more for performing risky sex regardless of the weight status. By further looking at weight and height, we …

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Tolerance and HIV

Francis, Andrew M.; Mialon, Hugo M. - In: Journal of Health Economics 29 (2010) 2, pp. 250-267

We empirically investigate the effect of tolerance for gays on the spread of HIV in the United States. Using a state-level panel dataset spanning the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, we find that tolerance is negatively associated with the HIV rate. We then investigate the causal mechanisms...

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