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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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Knowledge, Stigma, and HIV Testing : An Analysis of a Widespread HIV/AIDS Program
Yang, Dean; Allen, James E.; Mahumane, Arlete; Riddell, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using randomized methodologies, we study a common community HIV/AIDS program that seeks to promote HIV testing by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510594
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Forsaking All Others? The Effects of "Gay Marriage" on Risky Sex
Dee, Thomas S. - 2005
One of the conjectured benefits of establishing the legal recognition of samesex partnerships is that it would promote a culture of responsibility and commitment among homosexuals. A specific implication of this claim is that "gay marriage" will reduce the prevalence of sexually transmitted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467356
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The Repeated Setbacks of HIV Vaccine Development Laid the Groundwork for SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines
Harris, Jeffrey E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The decades-long effort to produce a workable HIV vaccine has hardly been a waste of public and private resources. To the contrary, the scientific know-how acquired along the way has served as the critical foundation for the development of vaccines against the novel, pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496141
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Innovation and Health Disparities During an Epidemic : The Case of HIV
Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Hincapié, Andrés; Kalish, Emma C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine whether medical innovation can reinforce existing health disparities by disproportionately benefiting socioeconomically advantaged patients. The reason is that less advantaged patients often do not use new medications. This may be due to high costs of new drugs, but could also reflect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533413
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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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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000
The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471247
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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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Intergenerational Mobility Begins Before Birth
Seshadri, Ananth; Zhou, Anson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Nearly 40% of births in the United States are unintended, and this phenomenon is disproportionately common among Black Americans and women with lower education. Given that being born to unprepared parents significantly affects children's outcomes, could family planning access affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172190
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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