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Motives for Private Gift Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Romania

Mitrut, Andreea; Nordblom, Katarina - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

In many developing and transitional countries, inter-household transfers in general and gifts in particular are sizable and very important. We use unique Romanian data that enables us, contrary to most previous studies, to isolate pure gifts from other kinds of private transfers and to study...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019107

Bridging the Gap for Roma Women: The Effects of a Health Mediation Program on Roma Prenatal Care and Child Health

Bejenariu, Simona; Mitrut, Andreea - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

Roma, Europe’s largest minority, face poverty, social exclusion and life-long inequalities, despite the intensified efforts to alleviate their plight. Surprisingly, despite substantial funding aimed at improving Roma outcomes, there is a very little evidence on the effectiveness of these...

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Negative Externalities in Day Care: Optimal Tax Policy Response

Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

Systematic pediatric evidence shows that the morbidity rates for children in day care are increasing in the group size.Sick children are usually cared for at home by parents. This creates a negative externality of parents' labor force participation. The social optimum implies lower group size...

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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 … actual fertility responds positively to male mortality but negatively to female mortality, and that the overall fertility …

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How Does Communal HIV/AIDS Affect Fertility? - Evidence from Malawi

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

Recently there has been a surge in interest on how HIV/AIDS affects fertility in countries hit by the disease. In this … study, the effect of communal HIV/AIDS on fertility in rural Malawi is estimated using individual data from the 2004 Malawi … Demographic and Health Survey on fertility and the ideal number of children. The survey includes individual HIV status, making it …

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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

women or of young women who have already given birth. The resulting change in the distribution of fertility across age …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651589

HIV/AIDS, Adult Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from Malawi

Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Malawi. The future course of fertility … geographical variation in the distribution of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Fertility is estimated for individual women, and measured as the … major finding is that HIV/AIDS reduces fertility. Uninfected women both give birth to and desire to have fewer children in …

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Naïve Beliefs and the Multiplicity of Social Norms

Patel, Amrish; Cartwright, Edward - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

In a signalling model of conformity, we demonstrate that naïve observers, those that take actions at face value, constrain the set of actions that can possibly be social norms. With rational observers many actions can be norms, but with naïve observers only actions close to that preferred by...

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Endogenous Norm Formation over the Life Cycle. The case of tax evasion

Nordblom, Katarina; Zamac, Jovan - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

This paper offers an explanation to why the general observation that elderly hold stronger moral attitudes than young ones may be an age rather than a cohort effect. We apply mechanisms from social psychology to explain how personal norms may evolve over the life cycle. We assume that people...

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