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Adverse Selection in the Marriage Market : HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi

Angelucci, Manuela - 2020

endogenous response to HIV risk may explain why the HIV/AIDS epidemic has coincided with systematic marriage and pregnancy delays … revealed over time. Sexual safety is an important but hidden partner attribute, especially in areas where HIV is endemic. A … more so if they are also attractive. Frequent HIV testing may enable safe people to signal and screen. Consistent with …

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Adverse selection in the marriage market: HIV testing and marriage in rural Malawi

Angelucci, Manuela; Bennett, Daniel - 2020

endogenous response to HIV risk may explain why the HIV/AIDS epidemic has coincided with systematic marriage and pregnancy delays. … revealed over time. Sexual safety is an important but hidden partner attribute, especially in areas where HIV is endemic. A … more so if they are also attractive. Frequent HIV testing may enable safe people to signal and screen. Consistent with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271316

Circular migration, marriage markets, and HIV : long-run evidence from Mozambique

Denton-Schneider, Jon - 2024

. Counterintuitively, but consistent with historical narratives and theoretical predictions, HIV prevalence is lower today on the former … - which promote HIV's spread - have long been smaller in this region, as circular migration allowed much younger men to afford …

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Income inequality and intimate partner violence against women : evidence from India

Rashada, Ahmed Shoukry; Sharaf, Mesbah Fathy - 2016

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has been consistently linked to poor health and adverse social outcomes. Though there is substantial empirical evidence on the determinants of IPV, little attention has been given to the potential impact of income inequality on domestic violence, especially in the...

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Exposure to intimate partner violence and children's dynamic skill accumulation : evidence from a UK longitudinal study

Anderberg, Dan; Moroni, Gloria - 2020

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and children's development up to the age of seven....

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Exposure to intimate partner violence and children's dynamic skill accumulation : evidence from a UK longitudinal study

Anderberg, Dan; Moroni, Gloria - 2020

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Conditional cash transfers for women and spousal violence : evidence of the long-term relationship from the Oportunidades program in Rural Mexico

Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Castro, Roberto; Morales, Juan S. - 2015

This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program. It uses data from three nationally representative surveys that include detailed information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats...

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Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub–Saharan Africa

Sievert, Maximiliane - 2015

One third of all women experience violence within their lifetime, most frequently perpetrated by their intimate partner (IPV). It impacts women’s sexual, reproductive, and mental health, and increases the risk of chronic disease. Ways to reduce IPV are less obvious, though. Especially in rural...

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Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub Saharan Africa

Sievert, Maximiliane - 2024

Electrification is frequently said to foster women's development and contribute to a modernization of gender roles. Using Demographic and Health Survey data from rural areas in 22 Sub-Saharan countries collected between 1999 and 2014, this paper examines the role of electricity access in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528272

Gender-based violence and gender bias in schooling decision : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Koissy-Kpein, Sandrine A. - 2015

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children live in, on school attendance, school achievement, as well as boys' and girls' dropouts. Based on the sixth phase of the Demographic and Health Surveys from 18 sub-Saharan...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379718

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