parental beliefs play a role by eliciting beliefs about the returns to a recommended-calorie diet and regular exercise using …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

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 …

evidence using Philippine data that increasing HIV/AIDS knowledge delays sexual initiation, limits sexual activity, and …

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 …

: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and COVID-19. Although major epidemics and pandemics can take an enormous …