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Evidence and Lessons on the Health Impacts of Public Health Funding from the Fight against HIV/AIDS
Dillender, Marcus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
HIV/AIDS has been one of the largest public health crises in recent history, and the U.S. federal government has spent ….S. cities through the Ryan White CARE Act, which is the largest program for combating HIV/AIDS in the United States. The … that resulted in large funding differences among cities that were originally on parallel HIV/AIDS trajectories and finds …
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Can at Scale Drug Provision Improve the Health of the Targeted in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Lucas, Adrienne M. - 2017
treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected …
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Health, Human Capital and Domestic Violence
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2016
We study the impact of health shocks on domestic violence and illicit drug use. We argue that health is a form of human capital that shifts incentives for risky behaviors, such as drug use, and also changes options outside of violent relationships. To estimate causal effects, we examine...
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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility : Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Duflo, Esther - 2014
A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government's HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...
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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries
Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by … policy related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in African countries …
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Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say?
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2000
This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-country data. Using non-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in any direction) are associated with reduced...
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Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression : Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime
Paolera, Gerardo della - 2000
This work explores how Argentina overcame the Great Depression and asks whether active macroeconomic interventions made any contribution to the recovery. In particular, we study Argentine macroeconomic policy as it deviated from gold-standard orthodoxy after the final suspension of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471138
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Inequality, Growth, and Investment
Barro, Robert J. - 1999
Evidence from a broad panel of countries shows little overall relation between income inequality and rates of growth and investment. However, for growth, higher inequality tends to retard growth in poor countries and encourage growth in richer places. The Kuznets curve-whereby inequality first...
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The Great Transition : Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Marto, Ricardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The 20th century beheld a dramatic transformation of the family. Some Kuznets style facts regarding structural change in the family are presented. Over the course of the 20th century in the United States fertility declined, educational attainment waxed, housework fell, leisure increased, jobs...
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Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as "China's Kuznets curve." We show that the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little explanatory power for our new series of inequality...
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