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Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2019
assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees are speaking … paper outlines a framework for gender-enhanced growth diagnostics that can be used to identify win-win solutions based on … or that from a pro-gender reform aimed at closing gender gaps. Using Turkey's country growth diagnostics and data on …
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Accounting for Gender Production from a Growth Accounting Framework in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fofack, Hippolyte - 2017
employment and the reduction in the gender gap in education in recent years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975083
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On Gender and Growth : The Role of Intergenerational Health Externalities and Women's Occupational Constraints
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2017
several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976264
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Using Lotteries to Incentivize Safer Sexual Behavior : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on HIV Prevention
Bjorkman Nyqvist, Martina - 2017
Financial incentives are a promising HIV prevention strategy. This paper assesses the effect on HIV incidence of a lottery program in Lesotho with low expected payments but a chance to win a high prize conditional on negative test results for sexually transmitted infections. The intervention...
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Demand-Side Financing for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Low and Middle-Income Countries : A Review of the Evidence
Witter, Sophie - 2017
Demand-side financing approaches have been introduced in a number of low and middle-income countries, with a particular emphasis on sexual and reproductive health. This paper aims to bring together the global evidence on demand-side financing mechanisms, their impact on the delivery of sexual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974937
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Sexual Behavior Change Intentions and Actions in the Context of a Randomized Trial of a Conditional Cash Transfer for HIV Prevention in Tanzania
Packel, Laura - 2017
exploration of intended strategies for changing sexual behaviors and their results. The authors find that gender, intervention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975374
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Stimulating Demand for Aids Prevention : Lessons from the Respect Trial
de Walque, Damien - 2017
HIV-prevention strategies have yielded only limited success so far in slowing down the AIDS epidemic. This paper examines novel intervention strategies that use incentives to discourage risky sexual behaviors. Widely-adopted conditional cash transfer programs that offer payments conditioning on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975444
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Antiretroviral Therapy Awareness and Risky Sexual Behaviors : Evidence from Mozambique
de Walque, Damien - 2017
This paper studies the effect of increased access to antiretroviral therapy on risky sexual behavior, using data collected in Mozambique in 2007 and 2008. The survey sampled both households of randomly selected HIV positive individuals and households from the general population. Controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976272
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Who Gets Aids and How? The Determinants of HIV Infection and Sexual Behaviors in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania
de Walque, Damien - 2016
This paper analyzes the determinants of HIV infection and associated sexual behaviors using data from the first five Demographic and Health Surveys to include HIV testing for a representative sample of the adult population. Emerging from a wealth of country relevant results, four important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748082
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Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities in Education and Housing : Evidence from Two Field Experiments in Serbia
Koehler, Dominik - 2018
Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people is widespread, and LGBTI exclusion from economic markets, vital services, and political spaces is entrenched. This is not just an individual problem; it is a development challenge; not only because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912324