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changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model we show that "edutainment" can work through an …
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Kremer and Snyder (2015) show that demand curves for a preventive and treatment may have different shapes though they target the same disease, biasing the pharmaceutical manufacturer toward developing the lucrative rather than the socially desirable product. This paper tightens the theoretical...
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Using randomized methodologies, we study a common community HIV/AIDS program that seeks to promote HIV testing by …
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This paper investigates the effects of health insurance and new antiviral treatments on HIV testing rates among the U.S. general population using nationally representative data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) for the years 1993 to 2002. We estimate recursive bivariate...
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We argue that in pharmaceutical markets, variation in the arrival time of consumer heterogeneity creates differences between a producer's ability to extract consumer surplus with preventives and treatments, potentially distorting R&D decisions. If consumers vary only in disease risk, revenue...
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Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) is the single most effective HIV prevention intervention in practice today. Nonetheless, little reliable empirical evidence exists on the behavioral effects of PMTCT. This paper documents the rapid expansion of access to PMTCT in Zambia...
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In 2007, approximately one in five children in Zambia lived with an HIV positive adult. We identify the effect of adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) availability at scale on children's educational outcomes by combining data on the expansion of ART availability with two national household surveys...
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The purpose of this paper is to survey what is known about the investment policy of pension funds. Pension fund … investment policy depends critically on the type of plan: defined contribution versus defined benefit. For defined contribution … plans investment policy is not much different than it is for an individual deciding how to invest the money in an Individual …
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The investment theory, in which the expected return varies cross-sectionally with investment, expected profitability …
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We propose an empirical implementation of the consumption-investment problem using the martingale representation … simplifies the investor's task of specifying the investment opportunity set and inherits the computational convenience of the …
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