| dc.contributor.author | Djemaï, Elodie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-22T15:43:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-10-22T15:43:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/7314 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.subject | risk | en |
| dc.subject | HIV | en |
| dc.subject | Sub-Saharan Africa | en |
| dc.subject.ddc | 334 | en |
| dc.subject.classificationjel | E32 | en |
| dc.subject.classificationjel | J11 | en |
| dc.subject.classificationjel | I12 | en |
| dc.title | Risk Taking of HIV-Infection and Income Uncertainty : Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa | en |
| dc.type | Document de travail / Working paper | |
| dc.description.abstracten | This paper questions the positive relationship between HIV prevalence and income in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we hypothesize that a greater economic instability would reduce the incentives to engage in self-protective
behaviors inducing people to increasingly take the risk of HIV-infection and hence causing a rise in HIV prevalence. We provide a simple model to stress
on the e ects of an increase in income risk in the incentives for protection.
We test the prediction using a panel of Sub-Saharan African countries over
the period 1980-2001. It is shown that the epidemic is widespread in countries
that experience a great instability in gross domestic product over the whole
period. When introducing income instability, GDP per capita is devoid of
predictive power and the puzzle of the positive relationship between income
and prevalence in Africa is lifted. Additional nding states that the risk taking
of HIV-infection increases when the individuals are facing frequent and large
crop shocks. | en |
| dc.publisher.name | Toulouse School of Economics | |
| dc.publisher.city | Toulouse | |
| dc.identifier.citationpages | 41 | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseriestitle | TSE working paper series | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseriesnumber | 09-007 | en |
| dc.description.sponsorshipprivate | oui | en |
| dc.subject.ddclabel | Economie sociale | en |
