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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462541
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463824
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481066
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496141
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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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Optimal Vaccine Subsidies for Endemic and Epidemic Diseases
Goodkin-Gold, Matthew - 2020
Vaccines exert a positive externality, reducing spread of disease from the consumer to others, providing a rationale for subsidies. We study how optimal subsidies vary with disease characteristics by integrating a standard epidemiological model into a vaccine market with rational economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482304
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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