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 …

problems relating to it, keeping in view the available facts and figures is analysed in view of social and religious beliefs in …

protective measures, especially facemasks, and the demand for vaccines among university students in Malawi. In particular, the … to their beliefs and behavior enhance the spread of the virus. Our findings may be useful for targeting efforts to …

differences between households or differences within households in Malawi. Using a linear model with random effects, we derive a …, and birth order lines in Malawi. The results for rural and urban areas, as well as ethnic and religious groups show that …

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Malawi. The future course of fertility … geographical variation in the distribution of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Fertility is estimated for individual women, and measured as the … mortality and HIV prevalence rates at districts level are used to measure the impact of HIV/AIDS, exploiting the large …

This paper applies a nonparametric matching method to decompose the rural-urban malnutrition gap in Malawi. The results …