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How beliefs about HIV status affect risky behaviors : evidence from Malawi

Paula, Áureo de; Shapira, Gil; Todd, Petra - 2011 - Rev., seventh version

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How beliefs about HIV status affect risky behaviors : evidence from Malawi

Paula, Áureo de; Shapira, Gil; Todd, Petra - 2010 - Rev., fifth version

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How beliefs about HIV status affect risky behaviors : evidence from Malawi

Paula, Áureo de; Shapira, Gil; Todd, Petra - 2010 - Rev., fourth version

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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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Behavioral Response to an Anti Malaria Spraying Campaign, with Evidence from Eritrea

Locatelli, Andrea; Carneiro, Pedro; Gebremeskel, Tewolde; … - 2011

It is sometimes argued that introducing Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use, which would hinder Malaria eradication rather than promote it. We analyze new data from a Randomized Control Trial conducted in Eritrea in...

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Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime

Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo E. - 2015

In this paper we show that a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort is an important determinant of engaging in risky behaviors. Using longitudinal data from representative US high schools, and exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the cohort composition within a school, we find a strong...

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Religion, beliefs, trust, and COVID vaccination behavior among rural people in Malawi

Holden, Stein Terje; Tione, Sarah; Tilahun, Mesfin; … - 2023

This study investigates the religious and other beliefs related to the corona/COVID-19 pandemic and how they are … related to covid risk perceptions, trust in COVID vaccines, and how these are affected by the religious beliefs, religious … in rural areas in six districts in Central and Southern Regions of Malawi during April-May 2022 towards the end of the …

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Knowledge, beliefs, perceptions, and behavior related to the corona (COVID-19) pandemic among university students in Malawi

Holden, Stein Terje; Katengeza, Samson; Tione, Sarah; … - 2022

), Lilongwe, Malawi. It aims to provide evidence on the extent of exposure to the pandemic among university students, their … knowledge and beliefs related to the corona virus and the ways they protect themselves against getting infected, the sources of … information that they rely on, and other factors influencing their knowledge, beliefs, and behavior. The study was undertaken in …

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Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Delavande, Adeline; Gilabert, … - 2020

We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive,...

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Understanding demand for COVID-19 antibody testing

Serra Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2020

We study individual demand for COVID-19 antibody tests in an incentivized study on a representative sample of the US population. Almost 2,000 participants trade off obtaining an athome test kit against money. At prices close to zero, 80 percent of individuals want the test. However, this broad...

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