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De Walque, Damien Bernard.

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How do education and information affect health decisions? The cases of HIV/AIDS and smoking (Immune deficiency).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How do education and information affect health decisions? The cases of HIV/AIDS and smoking (Immune deficiency)./
Author:	De Walque, Damien Bernard.
Description:	149 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2578.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-07A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3097096

How do education and information affect health decisions? The cases of HIV/AIDS and smoking (Immune deficiency).
De Walque, Damien Bernard.

How do education and information affect health decisions? The cases of HIV/AIDS and smoking (Immune deficiency). - 149 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2578.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2003.

The ability to process information is thought to be one channel through which education affects health outcomes. This thesis tests this hypothesis in two very different contexts: the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa and smoking behaviors in the U.S.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Economics, General.

How do education and information affect health decisions? The cases of HIV/AIDS and smoking (Immune deficiency).
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520 $a Previous studies in the epidemiological literature have generally concluded that, in Africa, there was either a positive or no association between HIV infection and schooling levels. Using individual level data from a cohort study following the general population of a cluster of villages in rural Uganda over 12 years, this thesis shows that, after more than a decade of prevention campaigns about the dangers of the epidemic, there has been a substantial evolution in the HIV/education gradient. Early in the epidemic, in 1990, there was no robust relation between HIV/AIDS and education. In 2000, among young individuals, education lowers the risk of being HIV positive. Results on HIV incidence in a duration framework confirm that finding by establishing that, for young individuals, education reduces the probability of seroconversion. These findings reveal that educated individuals have been more responsive to the HIV/AIDS information campaigns. The analysis of sexual behaviors reinforces that conclusion: condom use is associated positively with schooling levels.
520 $a Smoking histories in the U.S., reconstructed from retrospective data in the NHIS, reveal that, after 1950 when the information about the dangers associated with tobacco became available, the prevalence of smoking has declined earlier and more strongly for college graduates. To what extent, however, is the effect of education in making healthy choices causal? Using the fact that, during the Vietnam War, college attendance provided a draft avoidance strategy, the results of an IN. estimation indicate that at least part of the effect of education on the smoking decision is causal. This suggests that there might be substantial additional, non labor-market, returns to schooling associated with the effect of education on health.
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