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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 …

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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...

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An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Policies on Youth STDs

Grossman, Michael - 2004

) 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 …

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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Mansour, Hani - 2020

data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …

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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 …

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HIV and Fertility Revisited

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2010

Young (2005) argues that HIV related population declines reinforced by the fertility response to the epidemic will lead to higher capital-labor ratios and to higher per capita incomes in the affected countries of Africa. Using household level data on fertility from South Africa and relying on...

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Needle Sharing and HIV Transmission : A Model with Markets and Purposive Behavior

Mahal, Ajay - 2009

Without well designed empirical studies, mathematical models are an important way to use data on needle infection for inferences about human infection. We develop a model with explicit behavioral foundations to explore an array of policy interventions related to HIV transmission among IDU. In...

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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 …

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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...

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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....

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