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Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
(2009-12-28)
Essays on Economic Behaviour: HIV/AIDS, Schooling, and Inequality
(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!
(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 ...
Changing local customs: Long-run impacts of the earliest campaigns against female genital cutting
(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 ...