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Adult mortality and consumption growth in the age of HIV/AIDS
Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003421055
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República Dominicana: población y desarrollo : 1950 - 1985
Ramírez, Nelson - 1988
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Hacia la armonización de las estimaciones de mortalidad materna en América Latina : hallazgos de un estudio piloto en ocho países
Cobos, María Isabel; Miller, Tim; Ruiz Salguero, Magda … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237361
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Mobilization against AIDS: Beobachtungen von einer Reise im Herbst 1985
Paul, Gerd - In: Eine Stadt lebt mit AIDS: Hilfe und Selbsthilfe in San …, (pp. 10-27). 1986
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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice
Lammers, Judith; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2007
This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These experimental data, based on muitiple price lists developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325511
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Growth and enduring epidemic diseases
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2006
This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263920
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Does AIDS-related mortality reduce per-capita household income? Evidence from rural Zambia
Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Thiele, Rainer - 2009
This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per-capita incomes of surviving household members, using a … AIDS is likely to be the endogenous outcome of individual behavior, we employ a difference-in-difference propensity score … departed or joined for reasons related to AIDS. A likely explanation for this finding is that surviving household members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265241
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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries: Missing the target?
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS …-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA specifically meant to fight sexually transmitted diseases on HIV/AIDS …, conclusive evidence on significant treatment effects on AIDS-related deaths only exists for the major bilateral source of ODA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277988
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Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2006
This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753122
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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries: Missing the target?
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS …-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA specifically meant to fight sexually transmitted diseases on HIV/AIDS …, conclusive evidence on significant treatment effects on AIDS-related deaths only exists for the major bilateral source of ODA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311666