This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect decisions to engage in risky sexual behavior, as measured … the 2006 and 2008 rounds of the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP). The paper first develops a … behavioral model of the belief-risky behavior relationship. It then estimates the causal effect of beliefs on risky behavior in a …

. The agent is assumed to have a finite number of "states of mind" that quantify his beliefs about the relative likelihood …

2006 and 2008 from the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP). In the data, beliefs about HIV status vary …This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect decisions to engage in risky sexual behavior (as measured … by extramarital affairs) and analyzes the potential for interventions that influence beliefs, such as HIV testing and …

models. A central insight consists of recognizing that the evolution of agents' beliefs can be captured by defining a set of …. Once this kind of structure is imposed, it is possible to create a mapping between the evolution of agents' beliefs and …. Therefore, agents form expectations taking into account that their beliefs will evolve according to what they observe in the …

models. A central insight consists of recognizing that the evolution of agents. beliefs can be captured by defining a set of …. Once this kind of structure is imposed, it is possible to create a mapping between the evolution of agents’ beliefs and …. Therefore, agents form expectations taking into account that their beliefs will evolve according to what they observe in the …

Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP), which contain detailed information on beliefs about HIV status and on sexual …This paper examines whether and to what extent changes in beliefs about own HIV status induce changes in risky sexual … behaviors. Many individuals change their beliefs over time, in part because of opportunities to get tested for HIV and …

Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP), which contain detailed information on beliefs about HIV status and on sexual …This paper examines whether and to what extent changes in beliefs about own HIV status induce changes in risky sexual … behaviors. Many individuals change their beliefs over time, because of opportunities to get tested for HIV and informational …

This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect decisions to engage in risky sexual behavior using data on … analysis is based on panel surveys for years 2006 and 2008 from the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP …). Beliefs vary significantly over time in the data, in part because of HIV testing and informational campaigns. We estimate the …

Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project. Controlling for endogeneity between beliefs and risk-taking, we find that …This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect sexual behavior. Risky behavior is measured as the …

information about their own HIV status. This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect risky sexual behavior using … Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP) and from an experimental HIV testing intervention carried out in 2004 … between beliefs and risk-taking, we find that downward revisions in the subjective belief of being HIV positive lead to …