Showing 1 - 10 of 661
leading cause of adult mortality in the region, HIV/AIDS, and may increase risky sexual behavior. We examine the association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911688
concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector industries. With the steady decline in private sector unionization and rising … inequality among men but not among women. In both countries we find striking differences between the private and public sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907134
Several recent studies have found that earnings inequality in Canada has grown considerably since the late 1970's. Using an extraordinary data base drawn from longitudinal income tax records, we decompose this growth in earnings inequality into its persistent and transitory components. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246265
We examine the possible sources of the larger racial and ethnic wage gaps for men than for women in the U …, industries, and regions, we examine whether these wage differences can be accounted for by differences between men and women in … establishment and job cell. Our results indicate that greater segregation between Hispanic men and white men than between Hispanic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247201
Analyzing Florida birth certificates matched to school records, we document that the female advantage in childhood behavioral and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional quantile regression, we investigate whether family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291842
Numerous studies have found that married men earn consider-ably more than single men of the same education, experience …. Alternatively, one of the benefits of marriage is specialization in the labor force; married men spend more hours in the labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210585
Under asymmetric information about sexual history, sexual activity creates externalities. Abstinence by those with few partners perversely increases the average probability of HIV infection in the pool of available partners. Since this increases prevalence among the high activity people who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157998
) and rates of gonorrhea and AIDS among teenagers and young adults. Results indicate that higher beer taxes are associated … with lower rates of gonorrhea for males and are suggestive of lower AIDS rates. Strict drunk driving policies in the form …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225428
AIDS/HIV infection in school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141851
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) is the single most effective HIV prevention intervention in practice today. Nonetheless, little reliable empirical evidence exists on the behavioral effects of PMTCT. This paper documents the rapid expansion of access to PMTCT in Zambia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103804