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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975444
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Building Resilient Health Systems : Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
Christensen, Darin Eugene - 2020
This paper experimentally examines efforts aimed at improving health worker performance in the context of the 2014-15 West African Ebola crisis. Roughly two years before the outbreak in Sierra Leone, the study randomly assigned two accountability interventions to government-run health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835568
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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets
Espitia, Alvaro - 2020
This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833536
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Determinants of Social Distancing and Economic Activity During COVID-19 : A Global View
Maloney, William F. - 2020
The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834265
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Covid-19 Mortality in Rich and Poor Countries : A Tale of Two Pandemics?
Schellekens, Philip - 2020
applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet … inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper … yet to run its course through the age distributions of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832606
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Remote-Learning, Time-Use, and Mental Health of Ecuadorian High-School Studentsduring the Covid-19 Quarantine
Asanov, Igor - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools around the world, forcing school systems and students to quickly attempt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833532
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973362
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Coping with Risk : The Effects of Shocks on Reproductive Health and Transactional Sex in Rural Tanzania
de Walque, Damien - 2017
contributor to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This paper uses data from a panel of women in rural Tanzania whose primary occupation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973575
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Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare : Evidence from Liberia
de la Fuente, Alejandro - 2019
The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865500
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Formalizing Rural Land Rights in West Africa : Early Evidence from a Randomized Impact Evaluation in Benin
Goldstein, Markus - 2017
This paper presents early evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. The study examines the links between land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a model of agricultural production under insecure tenure. The demarcation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970863