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Intimate Partner Violence and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

We investigate the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV among married women using Demographic and Health Survey data from ten sub-Saharan African countries, and find a strong association. The association is due to higher HIV risk among violent men; neither women’s...

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Adult Mortality, AIDS and Fertility in Rural Malawi

Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

The impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa has received attention recently, since changes in population … structure can impact on future economic development. We analyze the effect of AIDS on actual and desired fertility in rural … Malawi, using data from Malawi 2004 Demographic and Health Survey and population censuses. Since AIDS was the dominating …

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Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi

Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

To analyze if the spread of HIV is related to economic inequality we estimate multilevel models of the individual probability of HIV infection among young Malawian women. We find a positive association between HIV infection and inequality at both the neighborhood and district levels, but no...

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Uncovering the Effect of the HIV Epidemic on Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Malawi

Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

affect economically relevant behaviour. We evaluate the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the reproductive behaviour for … women in Malawi, allowing for a heterogeneous response depending on age and prior number of births. HIV/AIDS increases the …

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Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries

Martinsson, Peter; Pham-Khanh, Nam; Villegas-Palacio, Clara - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we investigate the distribution of contribution types in two developing...

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The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Matzat, Dominik; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

This paper experimentally investigates the role of beliefs, trust, and risk in shaping cooperative behavior. By applying incentivized elicitation methods to measure these concepts, we find that beliefs about others’ behavior and trust are positively associated with cooperation in a public...

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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …

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Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control

Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...

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Conditional Cooperation and Social Group - Experimental results from Colombia

Martinsson, Peter; Villegas-Palacio, Clara; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

In contrast to previous studies on cross-group comparisons of conditional cooperation, this study keeps cross- and within-country dimensions constant. The results reveal significantly different cooperation behavior between social groups in the same location.<p>

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …

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