Utilizing the data I collected on a nationally mandated school meal program in India, I examine the extent to which children benefit from the targeted public transfer. Relying upon built-in randomness…

The ‘‘old” familiar diseases of cholera and typhoid remain a serious health threat in many developing countries. Health policy analysts often argue that vaccination against cholera and typhoid should…

Objectives: To estimate household willingness to pay (WTP) for cholera vaccines in a rural area of Bangladesh, which had participated in a 1985 oral cholera vaccine trial. Methods: A contingent…

This paper analyzes the marginal willingness to pay for changes in noise levels related to changes in the volume of flight movements at a city airport in Stockholm, Sweden, by using a choice…

This paper discusses different design techniques for stated preference surveys in health economic applications. In particular, we focus on different design techniques, i.e. how to combine the…

Social norms influence many dimensions of women’s lives and women’s assumptions about male partners’ pronatalism can have important associations with fertility behaviours. Using data on married…

Background: It is evident that public health education interventions to promote the use of condoms against HIV infections in Ghana have yielded modest results. However, existing studies in the field…

This study examines the asymmetric effects of differential sectoral growth on unemployment in Uganda, considering both the size and composition effect of sectoral growth. The results of this study...

Sectors are the engines of economic growth in any economy making inter-sectoral linkages the most significant target for development practitioners and policymakers. This study examines and ascertains...

As bilateral and multilateral donors transition the role of funding HIV programs to the governments of low- and middle-income countries, pressure to manage scarce resources can mount. Yet many...