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When Knowledge is not Enough : HIV/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana
Levinsohn, James A. - 2006
The spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is still fueled by ignorance in many parts of the world. Filling in knowledge gaps … describe the extent to which HIV/AIDS knowledge is correlated with less risky sexual behavior. We ask: even when there are no … increase vulnerability to infection? We use data from two recent household surveys in Botswana to address this question. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466247
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Stimulating Demand for AIDS Prevention : Lessons from the RESPECT Trial
de Walque, Damien - 2012
HIV-prevention strategies have yielded only limited success so far in slowing down the AIDS epidemic. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460794
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Contraception and Fertility : Household Production Under Uncertainty
Michael, Robert T. - 1973
Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to 2.4 children at the time of the Great Depression. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479104
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The Power of the IUD : Effects of Expanding Access to Contraception Through Title X Clinics
Kelly, Andrea M. - 2019
We estimate the effect of Colorado's Family Planning Initiative, the largest program to have focused on long-acting-reversible contraceptives in the United States, which provided funds to Title X clinics so that they could make these contraceptives available to low-income women. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479607
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The Missing Baby Bust : The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth among Low-Income Women
Bailey, Martha J.; Bart, Lea J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
administrative data to examine how reductions in access to reproductive health care during 2020 affected contraceptive efficacy among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938691
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"Momma's Got the Pill" : How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing
Bailey, Martha J. - 2009
this transition. Almost fifty years after the contraceptive pill appeared on the U.S. market, this analysis provides new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463972
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Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior
Kearney, Melissa S. - 2007
behavior and contraceptive use. Evidence from this analysis suggests that the reduction in fertility associated with raising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465609
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Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia
Miller, Grant - 2005
paper provides new evidence on the role of contraceptive supply by exploiting the surprisingly haphazard expansion of one of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466968
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How Much Can Expanding Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives Reduce Teen Birth Rates?
Lindo, Jason M. - 2015
Despite a near-continuous decline over the past 20 years, the teen birth rate in the United States continues to be higher than that of other developed countries. Given that over three- quarters of teen births are unintended at conception and that over a third of unplanned births are to women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457392
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Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda
Jamison, Julian C. - 2013
We evaluate the impact of a health information intervention implemented through mobile phones, using a clustered randomized control trial augmented by qualitative interviews. The intervention aimed to improve sexual health knowledge and shift individuals towards safer sexual behavior by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459554