Introduction Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Africa have high HIV incidence
despite scale‐up of HIV testing and HIV treatment. Placebo‐controlled trials of tenofovir …

Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial
health and productivity costs. However, the few existing measures of marginal willingness to …

We study the effect of physician workforce diversity on the demand for preventive care
among African American men. In an experiment in Oakland, California, we randomize black …

Abstract For 40 years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively
monitored hundreds of adult black men with syphilis despite the availability of effective …

Behavioral development economics applies theories and ideas from psychology and
behavioral economics to the study of questions in development economics. We begin by …

We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics
since the late twentieth century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth …

Laboratory studies suggest that improved cooking stoves can reduce indoor air pollution,
improve health, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. We …

Nudging interventions are broadly defined as a rearrangement of a choice context that
gently suggests a specific choice. Their increasing popularity has attracted attention and …

Between 1921 and 1956, French colonial governments organized medical campaigns to
treat and prevent sleeping sickness. Villagers were forcibly examined and injected with …

Foodborne diseases exact a large health toll in low and middle-income countries. We review
the empirical research on the safety of food produced and consumed in these settings. We …