Using Lotteries to Incentivize Safer Sexual Behavior : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on HIV Prevention

Nyqvist, Martina Björkman

Financial incentives are a promising HIV prevention strategy. This paper assesses the effect on HIV incidence of a lottery program in Lesotho with low expected payments but a chance to win a high prize conditional on negative test results for sexually transmitted infections. The intervention resulted in a 21.4 percent reduction in HIV incidence over two years. Lottery incentives appear to be particularly effective for individuals willing to take risks. This paper estimates a model linking sexual behavior to HIV incidence and finds that risk-loving individuals reduce the number of unprotected sexual acts by 0.3/month for every

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina
Other Persons:	De Walque, Damien (contributor) ; Svensson, Jakob (contributor) ; Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina (contributor) ; Corno, Lucia (contributor)
Publisher:	2015: Washington, D.C : The World Bank
Subject:	Glücksspiel \| Gambling \| AIDS \| Sexualität \| Sexuality \| Gesundheitsvorsorge \| Preventive care \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Anreiz \| Incentives \| Lesotho

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Nyqvist, Martina Björkman. Using Lotteries to Incentivize Safer Sexual Behavior. - Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2015

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