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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change : Fighting HIV with Mtv

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2019

information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model, the paper shows that ?edutainment? can …

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Stimulating Demand for Aids Prevention : Lessons from the Respect Trial

De Walque, Damien - 2017

HIV-prevention strategies have yielded only limited success so far in slowing down the AIDS epidemic. This paper …

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Hiv/Aids and Social Capital in a Cross-Section of Countries

David, Antonio C. - 2017

This paper attempts to quantify the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on social capital with cross-country data. It … quality, social distance, and economic indicators using data from the World Values Survey. The results obtained indicate that … dimensions and highlight the empirical importance of an additional mechanism through which HIV/AIDS hinders the development …

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Trends and Socioeconomic Gradients in Adult Mortality Around the Developing World

De Walque, Damien - 2017

affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Mortality rates in the highest HIV-prevalence countries of southern Africa exceed those in …

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Health, Demographic Transition and Economic Growth

Jorgensen, Ole Hagen - 2017

This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility decisions; altruistic intergenerational transfers from workers toward their parents; and economic growth. An increase in child survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and...

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Prioritizing Infrastructure Investment : A Framework for Government Decision Making

Marcelo, Darwin - 2017

Governments must decide how to allocate limited resources for infrastructure development, particularly since financing gaps have been projected for the coming decades. Social cost-benefit analysis provides sound project appraisal and, when systematically applied, a basis for prioritization. In...

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Cost-Effectiveness Measurement in Development : Accounting for Local Costs and Noisy Impacts

Evans, David - 2017

As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for...

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A Randomized Control Trial of a Peer Adherence and Nutritional Support Program for Public Sector Antiretroviral Patients

Booysen, Frederik - 2017

Access to antiretroviral treatment has expanded rapidly in South Africa, making it the country in the world with the …-based, peer-driven adherence and nutritional support interventions should form part of the United Nations AIDS Treatment 2 …

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

Bjorkman Nyqvist, Martina - 2017

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...

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Rewarding Safer Sex : Conditional Cash Transfers for Hiv/Sti Prevention

De Walque, Damien - 2017

Incentive-based policies have been shown to be powerful in many areas of behavior, but have rarely been tested in the sexual domain. The Rewarding Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention and Control in Tanzania (RESPECT) study is a randomized controlled trial testing the hypothesis that a...

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