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 …

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

We document the empirical fact that asset prices in the consumption-goods and investment-goods sector behave almost …

Using panel data on the full population of corporate tax returns from Armenia, we study behavioral responses of firms …

business income to tax authorities, we show that a fall in the tax rate may increase investment in risky entrepreneurial … business equity at the intensive margin, but decrease entrepreneurial investment at the extensive margin. To test these … due to tax avoidance or evasion, but increase investment in private businesses that are also worthwhile in the absence of …

In this paper we present a theory of health investment when there are multiple causes of death. Since there are several …. We analyze the optimal investment rules and the comparative statics. In particular, we search for the conditions that …