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This document summarizes a research paper that examines the relationship between income uncertainty and risk-taking behavior related to HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper provides a model showing that greater economic instability can reduce incentives for self-protective behaviors and increase risky behaviors like unprotected sex. Empirically, the paper finds that countries with more macroeconomic instability over 1980-2001 tended to have higher HIV prevalence levels. Additional analysis found t

Author

Natalia Nohemy Soriano

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EN