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William H. Dow
Public Health
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Open AccessRisks of Intimate Partner Violence for Women Living with HIV Receiving Cash Transfers: A Qualitative Study in Shinyanga, Tanzania
Cash transfers are increasingly used to motivate adherence to HIV care. However, evidence on cash transfers and intimate partner violence (IPV) is mixed and little is known about their safety for women living ...
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Incentives Versus Defaults: Cost-Effectiveness of Behavioral Approaches for HIV Screening
Many HIV positive individuals are still undiagnosed, which has led health systems to try many approaches to expand HIV testing. In a randomized controlled trial, we found that behavioral economics intervention...
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Women’s Relationship Power Modifies the Effect of a Randomized Conditional Cash Transfer Intervention for Safer Sex in Tanzania
This study tests whether women’s relationship power modifies the effect of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) on STI risk. We analyzed 988 women enrolled in the RESPECT study in Tanzania, a yearlong, randomized...
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Medicaid Spending Differences for Child/Youth Community-Based Care in California’s Decentralized Public Mental Health System
This study evaluated spending differences across counties during the decade after California decentralized its public mental health system. Medicaid data for 0–25 year olds using mental health services were co...
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The Impact of Positive Income Shocks on Risky Sexual Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
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 posit...
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Open AccessPredicting mortality with biomarkers: a population-based prospective cohort study for elderly Costa Ricans
Little is known about adult health and mortality relationships outside high-income nations, partly because few datasets have contained biomarker data in representative populations. Our objective is to determin...
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Specification tests for the sample selection and two-part models
We conduct Monte Carlo analysis to compare specification tests in choosing between the sample selection and two-part models for corner solutions when errors are correlated but there are no identifying instrume...
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Propensity score and difference-in-difference methods: a study of second-generation antidepressant use in patients with bipolar disorder
This article compared standard regression (logistic), propensity score weighting, propensity score matching, and difference-in-difference (DID) methods in determining the impact of second-generation antidepres...
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Choosing Between and Interpreting the Heckit and Two-Part Models for Corner Solutions
This article addresses certain poor practices commonly seen in the applied health economics literature regarding the use of the Heckit and the two-part model. First, many articles invoke the Heckit to solve a ...
