wellbeing (SWB) is affected by mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, including mortality from HIV/AIDS. The Gallup data provide …

I generate new data on HIV incidence and prevalence in Africa based on inference from mortality rates. I use these data … to relate economic activity (specifically, exports) to new HIV infections in Africa and argue there is a significant and … large positive relationship between the two: a doubling of exports leads to as much as a quadrupling in new HIV infections …

The response of sexual behavior to HIV in Africa is an important input to predicting the path of the epidemic and to … response should be larger for those with lower non-HIV mortality risks and those who are richer. I estimate behavioral response … using a new instrumental variables strategy, instrumenting for HIV prevalence with distance to the origin of the virus. I …

We evaluate the consequences of prosecuting HIV+ people who expose others to the risk of infection. We show that the … effect of aggressive prosecutions on the spread of HIV is a priori ambiguous. Aggressive prosecutions tax risky behavior and … for having sex with more promiscuous partners such as prostitutes and consequently increase the spread of HIV. We test …

We estimate the medical cost per life-year gained from increased utilization of HIV drugs by estimating the impact of … increased drug utilization on the life expectancy and drug and hospital expenditure of HIV/AIDS patients, using aggregate (U ….S. national-level) data for the period 1982-2001. We use IMS Health data on the aggregate number of and expenditure on HIV drug …

Recent breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV have coincided with an increase in infection rates and an eventual slowing … of reductions in HIV mortality. These trends may be causally related, if treatment improves the health and functional … status of HIV+ individuals and allows them to engage in more sexual risk-taking. We examine this hypothesis empirically using …

, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A … recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that similar to the quot;Black Deathquot; episode in Europe, HIV/AIDS will … rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys which link an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …

This paper examines the effect of antidepressant use on the likelihood of being employed among HIV-positive women … antidepressant use has a positive effect on the employment probability of women living with HIV. The proposed instrumental variables …

. Providing information on the relative risk of HIV infection by partner's age led to a 28% decrease in teen pregnancy, an … (riskier) partners and towards protected sex with same-age partners. In contrast, the national abstinence-only HIV education …

calibration of the global demand for HIV pharmaceuticals, we demonstrate the dramatically sharper analysis achievable with the new … bounds, allowing us to pinpoint potential deadweight loss at 62% of the global gain from curing HIV. We use the calibration … an HIV drug so high that only 4% of the infected population worldwide would purchase, matching actual drug prices and …