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Silent networks : the role of inaccurate beliefs in reducing useful social interactions
Jain, Ronak; Khandelwal, Vatsal - 2024
Inaccurate beliefs about social norms can reduce useful social interactions and adversely affect an individual …. Consistent with this, 2 years later, we find that the average beliefs of those exposed to the intervention are significantly more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075984
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A dynamic theory of fidelity networks with an application to the spread of HIV/AIDS
Pongou, Roland; Serrano, Roberto - 2009
) are. Next, we apply these results to find that under the first process, HIV/AIDS is equally prevalent among men and women … lead to higher HIV/AIDS prevalence among women in the short run, but it does in the long run. -- Fidelity networks ; anti …-female discrimination ; stochastic stability ; HIV/AIDS ; union formation models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897563
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The HIV Anticaptory Saving Motive : An Empirical Analysis in South Africa
van de Kuilen, Gijs - 2007
This paper studies the effect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behaviour. Two important characteristics of HIV result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729182
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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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HIV/AIDS Contamination Risk, Savings and the Welfare Effects of Diagnostic Testing
Lammers, Judith; Meijdam, A. C.; Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2007
This paper models the effect of a HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behavior and studies the welfare effects of testing for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224367
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On the relationship between aging, edical progress and age-specific health care expenditures
Ried, Walter (contributor) - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of population aging, driven by medical progress, upon agespecific expenditure on health care. In a model set up in discrete time, individuals at each age may catch a lethal disease which, upon receiving appropriate medical treatment, nevertheless involves a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003797084
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Smoking intensity, compensatory behavior and tobacco tax policy
Irvine, Ian Joseph - 2008
Smokers not only choose the number of cigarettes to smoke in any given period on the basis of price, they also choose the intensity with which to smoke - that is, how much nicotine to inhale. The possibility that quantity-reducing tax policies may be mitigated, or even completely offset, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870321
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Modelling addiction in life-cycle models : revisiting the treatment of latent stocks and other unobservables
Biørn, Erik - 2009
Dynamic modeling of demand for goods whose cumulated stocks enter an intertemporal utility function as latent variables, is discussed. The issues include: how represent addiction, how handle unobserved expectations and changing plans, how deal with `dynamic inconsistency'? Arguments are put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909570
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Grossman's missing health threshold
Galama, Titus J.; Kapteyn, Arie - 2009
We present a generalized solution to Grossman's model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used assumption that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an "optimalʺ level without adjustment costs. The Grossman model then predicts the existence of a health threshold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914040
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Convex treatment response and treatment selection
Boes, Stefan - 2010
This paper analyzes the identifying power of weak convexity assumptions in treatment effect models with endogenous selection. The counterfactual distributions are constrained either in terms of the response function, or conditional on the realized treatment, and sharp bounds on the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695370