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The impact of HIV testing on subjective mortality and investments in children : experimental evidence From Malawi
Eriksson, Katherine; Sovero, Veronica - In: Economics letters 149 (2016), pp. 90-93
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Do public health interventions crowd out private health investments? Malaria control policies in Eritrea
Carneiro, Pedro; Locatelli, Andrea; Ghebremeskel, Tewolde; … - 2012
malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282319
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Do public health interventions crowd out private health investments? : malaria control policies in Eritrea
Carneiro, Pedro; Locatelli, Andrea; Ghebremeskel, Tewolde; … - 2012
malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009554382
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Parental beliefs about returns to child health investments
Biroli, Pietro; Boneva, Teodora; Raja, Akash; Rauh, … - 2018
parental beliefs play a role by eliciting beliefs about the returns to a recommended-calorie diet and regular exercise using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798204
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For better or worse? : subjective expectations and cost-benefit trade-offs in health behavior
Conti, Gabriella; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2023
We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in … preferences and beliefs explain compliance differences by gender, only preferences drive differences by vulnerability. When others … vulnerables more. When a public figure breaches the rules, opponents comply less. Heterogenous beliefs, preferences, and responses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279898
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Determinants of ill health in Uganda : is it just the wealthy that are more healthy?
Lawson, David - 2004
This paper adopts a reduced form demand approach to analyse the key determinants influencing the health status of individuals in Uganda. In particular, we examine the importance of wealth, relative to other key determinants, and by employing both self reported and anthropometric sickness...
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The Role of HIV Detection on Reproductive Health : Outcomes in Cameroon
Tequame, Miron - 2017
The paper compares fertility outcomes between women enrolled in HIV clinics and the DHS sample which were both administered in Yaoundé contemporaneously. Using propensity score matching, I show that fertility outcomes are contingent on age at which women are detected HIV positive. Younger women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970581
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When death was postponed : the effect of HIV medication on work and marriage
Ejrnæs, Mette; García-Miralles, Esteban; Gørtz, Mette; … - 2022
Over the last century, global life expectancy has increased tremendously. A longer planning horizon may change individuals' incentives to work, save, and marry but it has proven challenging to disentangle such incentive effects from those of improved health. In this paper, we study how...
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Epidemics and Informality in Developing Countries
Salinas, Cesar - 2021
Developing countries are facing the Covid-19 epidemic with particular challenges, such as their economic and labor force composition. In this research I will extend the so-called SIR-macro model with demand and supply effects to study how the size of the informal sector impact the ability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212722
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How Does the Impact of an Hiv/Aids Information Campaign Vary with Educational Attainment? Evidence from Rural Uganda
de Walque, Damien - 2016
Walque tests this hypothesis by examining the effectiveness of an information campaign that aims at preventing the HIV/AIDS … evolution in the HIV/education gradient. Early in the epidemic, in 1990, there was no robust relation between HIV/AIDS and … HIV/AIDS information campaigns. The analysis of sexual behavior reinforces that conclusion: condom use is associated …
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