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In 2007, approximately one in five children in Zambia lived with an HIV positive adult. We identify the effect of adult …
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treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected … effect of at scale drug provision in a poor country, using the phased roll-out of ART in Zambia, a setting where …
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the rapid expansion of access to PMTCT in Zambia during the period 2000-2007 and provides some of the first evidence on …
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I use a randomized experiment to test whether information can change sexual behavior among teenagers in Kenya …
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A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government's HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...
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HIV/AIDS, but very little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children in the households of … household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours …
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Employment growth could reduce violence during civil conflicts. To determine if increased employment affects violence we analyzed varying employment in development programs run by different US military divisions in Iraqi districts. Employment levels vary with funding periods and the military...
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supply of adult AIDS patients receiving treatment; and (2) labor supply of children and adults living in the patients …
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This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the … prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of GDP per capita. Our analysis uses well- established empirical growth models to … control for a variety of factors possibly correlated with AIDS prevalence that might also influence growth. We also account …
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implement the methodology in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. We …
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