Risking it all for love? Resetting beliefs about HIV risk among low-income South African teens

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 184-198

  Datta, Saugato ^a   Burns, Justine ^b   Maughan Brown, Brendan ^b   Darling, Matthew ^a   Eyal, Katherine ^b  

^a Ideas42 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Age disparate; Experiment; Gender; HIV; Risk; Risk perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942551780     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.02.020     Document Type: Article

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