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HIV Testing, Behavior Change, and the Transition to Adulthood in Malawi
Beegle, Kathleen - 2017
For young adults living in countries with AIDS epidemics, getting an HIV test may influence near-term decisions, such as when to leave school, when to marry, and when to have a first child. These behaviors, which define the transition from adolescence to adulthood, have long-term implications on...
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The Heterogeneous Effects of HIV Testing
Baird, Sarah - 2017
An extensive multi-disciplinary literature examines the effects of learning one's HIV status on subsequent risky sexual behaviors. However, many of these studies rely on non-experimental designs; use self-reported outcome measures, or both. This study investigates the effects of a randomly...
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How Subjective Beliefs About HIV Infection Affect Life-Cycle Fertility : Evidence from Rural Malawi
Shapira, Gil - 2017
This paper studies the effect of subjective beliefs about HIV infection on fertility decisions in a context of high HIV prevalence and simulates the impact of different policy interventions, such as HIV testing programs and prevention of mother-to-child transmission, on fertility and child...
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Introducing Behavioral Change in Transportation into Energy/Economy/Environment Models
Schafer, Andreas - 2017
Transportation is vital to economic and social development, but at the same time generates undesired consequences on local, regional, and global scales. One of the largest challenges is the mitigation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, to which this sector already contributes...
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Does Financial Education Impact Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior, and if so, When?
Kaiser, Tim - 2017
(RCTs). However, intervention impacts are highly heterogeneous: financial education is less effective for low-income clients … as well as in low- and lower-middle income economies. Specific behaviors, such as the handling of debt, are more …
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Dictators Walking the Mogadishu Line : How Men Become Monsters and Monsters Become Men
Sarr, Mare - 2017
History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behavior significantly over time (like Zimbabwe's Mugabe) as well as dictators who displayed remarkable improvements (like Rawlings of Ghana). The authors show that such mutations can result from rational behavior when the dictator's...
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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies
Melecky, Martin - 2018
accompanied by an increase in output per capita. However, there is no evidence of an impact on household expenditure per capita …
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Get Rich or Die Tryin' : Perceived Earnings, Perceived Mortality Rate and the Value of a Statistical Life of Potential Work-Migrants from Nepal
Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2017
Do potential migrants have accurate information about the risks and returns of migrating abroad? And, given the information they have, what is their revealed willingness to trade risks for higher earnings? To answer these questions, this paper sets up and analyzes a randomized field experiment...
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Hit and Run? Income Shocks and School Dropouts in Latin America
Cerutti, Paula Maria - 2019
How do labor income shocks affect household investment in upper secondary and tertiary schooling? Using longitudinal … data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on … the enrollment status of youth ages 15 to 25. The findings suggest that negative income shocks significantly increase the …
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Global Inequality : The Implications of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Lakner, Christoph - 2017
dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968216