Incentives, Information, and Relations in Malawi (ICPSR 34359)

Principal Investigator(s): Kohler, Hans-Peter, University of Pennsylvania. Department of Sociology

Summary: The goal of this project was to collect innovative data on expectations, randomized incentive payments, and sexual behaviors, and to analyze the adaptation in sexual relations, household dynamics, and information-seeking to variation in (1) respondents knowledge aobut their own health status, (2) expectations about infection risks, STI/HIV prevalence, and risk-taking behaviors, and (3) randomized direct monetary incentives for participating in voluntary counseling and treatment (VCT) and for mai... (more info)

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This survey was funded by:

• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Summary:   The goal of this project was to collect innovative data on expectations, randomized incentive payments, and sexual behaviors, and to analyze the adaptation in sexual relations, household dynamics, and information-seeking to variation in (1) respondents knowledge aobut their own health status, (2) expectations about infection risks, STI/HIV prevalence, and risk-taking behaviors, and (3) randomized direct monetary incentives for participating in voluntary counseling and treatment (VCT) and for maintaining an HIV negative status.

Subject Terms:   access to information, communicable diseases, family structure, health behavior, HIV, sexual behavior

Geographic Coverage:   Africa, Global, Malawi

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