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Publikováno v:
Journal of Human Resources. 55:963-998
An increase in savings can lead to substitution away from informal risk-sharing arrangements (IRSAs), which can reduce the capacity to manage risk. We conduct a field experiment that promoted mobile bank savings among vulnerable women in Kenya. The s
Autor:
Kelly Jones, Erick Gong
Publikováno v:
Journal of Health Economics. 78:102460
For the vulnerable, even small shocks can have significant short- and long-term impacts. Beneficial shock-coping mechanisms are not widely available in sub-Saharan Africa. We test whether an individual precautionary savings intervention can reduce a
Autor:
Erick Gong, Katherine A. Sullivan
Publikováno v:
Journal of African Economies. 26:322-341
The relationship between income and conflict has been a topic of great interest in the political economy literature. A growing body of research has utilised within-country variation in conflict to address the concerns raised about the cross-country l
Autor:
Kenneth Maes, Neha Sharma, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Roza Abesha, Erick Gong, Svea Closser, Yihenew Tesfaye, Mikayla S Hyman, Natalie Meyer
Publikováno v:
Social Science & Medicine. 266:113373
Little empirical research exists on the effects of health work on Community Health Workers' (CHWs') social relationships and status, yet these factors are important in understanding the broad social and behavioral drivers and impacts of CHW programs.
Publikováno v:
AIDS and Behavior. 21:650-654
In this paper, we exploit a lottery in Tanzania, which randomly assigned eligible participants to receive $100 cash grants. The randomized nature of the lottery allows us to estimate the causal impact of positive income shocks on risky sexual behavio
Publikováno v:
Journal of health economics. 67
Transactional sex is an important risk-coping mechanism and a leading contributor to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. We use data from a conditional cash transfer (CCT) experiment in rural Tanzania designed to incentivize safer sexual beh
Autor:
Erick Gong
Publikováno v:
The Economic Journal. 125:32-60
Using a study that randomly assigns HIV testing in two sites in sub-Saharan Africa, I examine the effects of testing on sexual behaviour. Using sexually transmitted infections as markers of risky sex, I find behavioural responses to HIV tests when te
Publikováno v:
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. 2:65-97
We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 BC, 0 AD, and 1500 AD for the predecessors to today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes.
Publikováno v:
The Heterogeneous Effects of HIV Testing
This brief summarizes the updates from the 2014 paper entitled, The heterogeneous effects of HIV testing, Welfare impacts of rural electrification : evidence from Vietnam, conducted between between 2009 and 2010 in Malawi. The study observed the effe
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