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How Beliefs about HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors: Evidence from Malawi1, Second Version
Paula, Aureo de; Shapira, Gil; Todd, Petra E. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2008
This paper examines whether and to what extent changes in beliefs about own HIV status induce changes in risky sexual behavior using data from married males living in three regions of Malawi. Risky behavior is measured as the propensity to engage in extramarital affairs. The empirical analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967187
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How Beliefs about HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors: Evidence from Malawi, Second Version
Paula, Aureo de; Shapira, Gil; Todd, Petra E. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2009
This paper examines whether and to what extent changes in beliefs about own HIV status induce changes in risky sexual behavior using data from married males living in three regions of Malawi. Risky behavior is measured as the propensity to engage in extramarital affairs. The empirical analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497789
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How Beliefs About HIV Status affect Risky Behaviors: Evidence From Malawi, Second Version
Paula, Aureo de; Shapira, Gil; Todd, Petra E. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2008
This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect sexual behavior. Risky behavior is measured as the propensity to engage in extramarital affairs or not use condoms. The empirical analysis is based on 2004 and 2006 data from the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102119
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How Beliefs about HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors: Evidence from Malawi
Paula, Aureo de; Shapira, Gil; Todd, Petra - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2008
Many HIV testing programs in Africa and elsewhere aim to reduce risk-taking behaviors by providing individuals with information about their own HIV status. This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect risky sexual behavior using data from married couples living in three regions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109602
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How Subjective Beliefs about HIV Infection Affect Life-Cycle Fertility : Evidence from Rural Malawi
Shapira, Gil - 2013
-to-child transmission, on fertility and child mortality. It develops a model of women's life-cycle, in which women make sequential fertility … decisions. Expectations about the life horizon and child survival depend on women's perceived exposure to HIV infection, which … is allowed to differ from the actual exposure. In the model, women form beliefs about their HIV status and about their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395628
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HIV Testing, Behavior Change, and the Transition to Adulthood in Malawi
Beegle, Kathleen - 2014
For young adults living in countries with AIDS epidemics, getting an HIV test may influence near-term decisions, such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396107
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How beliefs about HIV status affect risky behaviors : evidence from Malawi
Paula, Áureo de; Shapira, Gil; Todd, Petra - In: Journal of applied econometrics 29 (2014) 6, pp. 944-964
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492755
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HIV testing, behavior change, and the transition to adulthood in Malawi
Beegle, Kathleen; Poulin, Michelle; Shapira, Gil - In: Economic development and cultural change 63 (2015) 4, pp. 665-684
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308085
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How subjective beliefs about HIV infection affect life-cycle fertility : evidence from rural Malawi
Shapira, Gil - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 52 (2017) 3, pp. 680-718
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694695
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How beliefs about HIV status affect risky behaviors : evidence from Malawi
Paula, Áureo de (contributor); Shapira, Gil (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769436