Eliciting honest answers to sensitive questions is frustrated if subjects withhold the truth for
fear that others will judge or punish them. The resulting bias is commonly referred to as …

Rationale Social desirability bias, which is the tendency to under-report socially, undesirable
health behaviours, significantly distorts information on sensitive behaviours, gained from self …

We use a cohort of female sex workers (FSWs) in Senegal to show how large anticipated
economic shocks lead to increased risky sexual behavior. Exploiting the exogenous timing …

Purpose Accurate measures of violence are difficult to obtain from self-reported data
because of stigmatization and social undesirability of the topic. Most methods that attempt to …

Social desirability bias, which is the tendency to under-report socially undesirable health
behaviours, significantly distorts information on sensitive behaviours that is gained from self …

While indirect response methods are increasingly used in surveys to measure sensitive
behaviours such as intimate partner violence, important questions persist around how …

Data from children suggest that the prevalence of child labour in the cocoa industry in Côte
d'Ivoire is a worrying 38%. However, while surveying children has the potential to reduce …

Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 16 million women are living with HIV, many of
whom are of reproductive age. Concomitant use of antiretroviral therapy, progestin-based …

Background Recording behaviours that have the potential to impact health can be doubly
challenging if the behaviour takes place in private spaces that cannot be observed directly …

This dissertation consists of four essays, which are all based on primary data. In the first
essay, we describe and attempt to explain the state and functionality of pre-schools …