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The Use of Financial Incentives to Prevent Undesirable Behaviors

de Walque, Damien - 2018

behaviors, in domains as varied as HIV/AIDS, drugs, alcohol, smoking, obesity, or early marriage prevention. This paper presents …

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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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Rewarding Safer Sex : Conditional Cash Transfers for Hiv/Sti Prevention

de Walque, Damien - 2017

Incentive-based policies have been shown to be powerful in many areas of behavior, but have rarely been tested in the sexual domain. The Rewarding Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention and Control in Tanzania (RESPECT) study is a randomized controlled trial testing the hypothesis that a...

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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 …

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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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Using Provider Performance Incentives to Increase HIV Testing and Counseling Services in Rwanda

de Walque, Damien - 2017

services delivery, including HIV/AIDS services. This study examines the scheme's impact on individual and couples HIV testing …

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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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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

Information, education, communication and interventions based on behavioral-change communication have had success in increasing the awareness of HIV. But these strategies alone have been less successful in changing risky sexual behavior. This paper addresses this issue by exploring the link...

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Education and Hiv/Aids Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya

Duflo, Esther - 2017

The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya …: (1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; (2) encouraging students to debate the … role of condoms and to write essays on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS; and (3) reducing the cost of education …

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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change : Fighting HIV with Mtv

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2019

information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model, the paper shows that ?edutainment? can …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863156

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