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How Subjective Beliefs About HIV Infection Affect Life-Cycle Fertility : Evidence from Rural Malawi
Shapira, Gil - 2017
longitudinal data from the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project, which contain family rosters, information on HIV testing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974650
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Price Seasonality in Africa : Measurement and Extent
Gilbert, Christopher L. - 2020
are important systematic country effects. Malawi, where maize is the main staple, emerges as exhibiting the most acute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855764
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Education and Hiv/Aids Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya
Duflo, Esther - 2017
The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya …: (1) training teachers in the Kenyan Government's HIV/AIDS-education curriculum; (2) encouraging students to debate the … role of condoms and to write essays on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS; and (3) reducing the cost of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746852
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Economic Growth, Education, and Aids in Kenya : A Long-Run Analysis
Bell, Clive - 2016
The AIDS epidemic threatens Kenya with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to … counterfactual in which there is no epidemic. Although AIDS does not bring about a catastrophic economic collapse, it does cause …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747960
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Discordant Couples : HIV Infection Among Couples in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania
de Walque, Damien - 2016
paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two … surprising findings about the dynamics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic which have important implications for policy. First, at least two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748024
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Who Gets Aids and How? The Determinants of HIV Infection and Sexual Behaviors in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania
de Walque, Damien - 2016
female genital mutilation are often associated with sexual behaviors, practices, and knowledge related to AIDS. This might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748082
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Agriculture, Aid and Economic Growth in Africa
McArthur, John - 2018
How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically-indexed applied general equilibrium model that considers pathways through which aid might affect growth and structural transformation of labor markets in the context of soil nutrient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918516
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Methodology for the Assessment of Data Quality : Application to HIV and Aids Programs in Latin America
Rodriguez-Garcia, Rosalia - 2017
Evidence is crucial in strategic planning for HIV response as well as the monitoring of results. This paper presents a simple tool that can be used to analyze the methodological quality of HIV data, its scope and limitations, and whether it can be accurately compared with other evidence. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976023
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Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid?
Annen, Kurt - 2019
This paper shows that the increased policy-selectivity of aid allocations observed in recent years provides recipient countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and Institutional Assessment policy index from 1.5 to 2 for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865492
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A Typology of Foreign Exchange Auction Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : Dynamic Models for Auction Exchange Rates
Hood, Ron - 2017
Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia. Among the policy lessons: 1) Nigeria and Zambia failed to unify and stabilize the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746914