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Bell, Clive (contributor); Gersbach, Hans (contributor) - 2006

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An assessment of the impact of HIV/AIDS on economic growth : the case of Kenya

Were, Maureen; Nafula, Nancy N. - 2003

HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa has been closely associated with adverse economic effects, and could thwart the success of … poverty reduction initiatives. HIV/AIDS is fast eroding the health benefits, which Kenya gained in the first two decades of … independence. The paper explores the different channels through which HIV/AIDS affects economic growth in a low-income country like …

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An equilibrium model of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp - 2018

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...

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Voting and political participation in the aftermath of the HIV/AIDS epidemic

Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Reeves, James - 2020

data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …

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Chinese aid and health at the country and local level

Cruzatti, John; Dreher, Axel; Matzat, Johannes - 2020

We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set...

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...

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Medication against conflict

Berlanda, Andrea; Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; … - 2022

-retroviral therapy (ART) to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic - in Africa. To identify the eﬀect, we combine exogenous variation in the scope …

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The impact of student aid eligibility on higher education applications

Remigereau, Camille; Schäper, Clara - 2024

This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from the French national centralized platform. We employ a difference-in-differences approach following a change in the income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find...

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The impact of financial support to firms during crises : the case of Covid aid in the EU

Canzian, Giulia; Crivellaro, Elena; Duso, Tomaso; … - 2025

The Covid-19 pandemic caused a global economic crisis, leading governments to provide substantial State Aid to support firms. This paper examines the effectiveness of Covid-related financial support in Spain and Italy, focusing on its impact on firm recovery. Using a difference-in-differences...

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Global innovation contests

Dinopoulos, Elias; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2023

This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of globalization on the skill premium and fully-endogenous growth. Higher quality products are endogenously discovered through stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in...

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