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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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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...

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The economics of artificial intelligence : an agenda

Agrawal, Ajay (ed.); Gans, Joshua (ed.); Goldfarb, Avi (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Economics of Artificial …; … - 2019

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb -- I. AI as a GPT -- 1. Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics / Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock, and Chad Syverson, Comment: Rebecca...

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Globalization and the Ladder of Development : Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom?

Atkin, David; Costinot, Arnaud; Fukui, Masao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the relationship between international trade and development in a model where countries differ in their capability, goods differ in their complexity, and capability growth is a function of a country's pattern of specialization. Theoretically, we show that it is possible for...

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Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development : The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy

Giorcelli, Michela; Bianchi, Nicola - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The Marshall Plan (1948-1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy's postwar economic development. It exploits differences between Italian provinces in the value of reconstruction grants they received. Provinces that could modernize more their...

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Openness to Trade and the Spread of Industrialization : Evidence from Canada during the First Era of Globalization

Jaworski, Taylor - 2020

We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of industrialization in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that industries and regions more exposed to international trade experienced faster growth. Consistent with...

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