Browsing by Author "Lindskog, Annika"
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Adult Mortality, AIDS and Fertility in Rural Malawi
Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika (2013-08)The impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa has received attention recently, since changes in population structure can impact on future economic development. We analyze the effect of AIDS on actual and ... -
Changing local customs: Long-run impacts of the earliest campaigns against female genital cutting
Congdon Fors, Heather; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Lindskog, Annika (University of Gothenburg, 2023-03)This paper investigates the long-run impacts of Christian missionary expansion on the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical analysis draws on historical data on the locations of early ... -
Conditional Persistence? Historical Disease Exposure and Government Response to COVID-19
Lindskog, Annika; Olsson, Ola (University of Gothenburg, 2023-08)In this paper, we investigate differences in government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the theory of the Behavioral Immune System and the Parasite Stress Theory, we hypothesize that a higher historical ... -
Does a Diversification Motive Influence Children’s School Entry in the Ethiopian Highlands?
Lindskog, Annika (2011-03)Household-level diversification of human capital investments is investigated. A simple model is developed, followed by an empirical analysis using 2000-2007 data from the rural Amhara region of Ethiopia. Diversification ... -
Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
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Education and HIV incidence among young women: causation or selection?
Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika; George, Gavin (2015-11)Several studies report that schooling protects against HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the effect of secondary school attendance on the probability of HIV incidence among young women aged 15-24, ... -
Essays on Economic Behaviour: HIV/AIDS, Schooling, and Inequality
Lindskog, Annika (2011-04-14)Paper 1: Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi To analyze if the spread of HIV is related to economic inequality we estimate multilevel models of the individual probability of HIV infection among young Malawian women. We ... -
Harmful norms: Can social convention theory explain the persistence of female genital cutting in Africa!
Congdon Fors, Heather; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Lindskog, Annika (University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)This paper investigates the explanatory power of social convention theory for explaining the persistence of female genital cutting (FGC) in a broad sample of African countries. While influential in policy circles, the ... -
HIV/AIDS, Adult Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from Malawi
Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika (2008-02-05)The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Malawi. The future course of fertility will have an impact on both macroeconomic variables, such as GDP per capita, and various socioeconomic ... -
How Does Communal HIV/AIDS Affect Fertility? - Evidence from Malawi
Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika (2009-06-25)Recently there has been a surge in interest on how HIV/AIDS affects fertility in countries hit by the disease. In this study, the effect of communal HIV/AIDS on fertility in rural Malawi is estimated using individual data ... -
Intimate Partner Violence and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa
Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika (2013-03 Re)We investigate the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV among married women using Demographic and Health Survey data from ten sub-Saharan African countries, and find a strong association. The ... -
Land Certification and Schooling in Rural Ethiopia
Congdon Fors, Heather; Houngbedji, Kenneth; Lindskog, Annika (2015-09)This paper investigates the impact of a rural land certification program on schooling in two zones of the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Using the variation in the timing of the arrival of the program at the local level, we ... -
Preferences for redistribution - a cross-country study in fairness
Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Lindskog, Annika (2007-08-01)This paper seeks to explain within as well as between country variation in preferences for redistribution in terms of self interest concerns, and an input based concept of fairness captured by the effects of beliefs about ... -
Son Preferences and Education Inequalities in India
Congdon Fors, Heather; Lindskog, Annika (2019-10)We investigate the impact of son preferences in India on gender inequalities in education. We distinguish the impact of preferential treatment of boys from the impact of gender-biased fertility strategies (gender-specific ... -
The Effect of Older Siblings’ Literacy on School Entry and Primary School Progress in the Ethiopian Highlands
Lindskog, Annika (2011-03)The effects of older sisters’ and brothers’ literacy on the annual school entry and primary school grade progress probabilities of boys and girls are estimated using within-household variation. Older siblings’ literacy has ... -
To educate a woman and to educate a man: Gender-specific sexual behaviour and HIV responses to an education reform in Botswana
Lindskog, Annika; Durevall, Dick (2019-05)Education has been suggested as a ‘vaccine’ against HIV infection, but there is not much causal evidence behind this claim. Moreover, the few studies that exist on the impact of education on HIV infection and related ... -
Uncovering the Effect of the HIV Epidemic on Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Malawi
Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika (2008-09-16)In many Sub-Saharan countries the HIV epidemic has spread to over 10% of the working-age population, and is likely to affect economically relevant behaviour. We evaluate the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the ... -
Within-Families Inequalities in Human Capital Accumulation in India
Congdon Fors, Heather; Lindskog, Annika (2018-12)We investigate within-family inequalities in human capital accumulation in India. We consider both indicators of the child's current stock of human capital and of investment into their continued human capital accumulation, ... -
Within-Family Inequalities in Human Capital Accumulation in India: Birth Order and Gender Effects
Congdon Fors, Heather; Lindskog, Annika (2017-05)In this paper we investigate birth order and gender effects on the development of children’s human capital in India. We investigate both indicators of the child’s current stock of human capital and of investment into their ...