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Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
(2009-12-28)
Adult Mortality, AIDS and Fertility in Rural Malawi
(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 ...
HIV/AIDS, Adult Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from Malawi
(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 ...
To educate a woman and to educate a man: Gender-specific sexual behaviour and HIV responses to an education reform in Botswana
(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 ...
Education and HIV incidence among young women: causation or selection?
(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, ...
Uncovering the Effect of the HIV Epidemic on Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Malawi
(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 ...
Intimate Partner Violence and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa
(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 ...
How Does Communal HIV/AIDS Affect Fertility? - Evidence from Malawi
(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 ...