Browsing Harvard Kennedy School by Author "Oster, Emily"

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    • Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women 

      Oster, Emily (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-09)
      In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West - as high as 1.07 in China and India, and even higher in Pakistan. A number of authors (most notably Sen, 1992) have suggested that ...

    • Sexually Transmitted Infections, Sexual Behavior and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic 

      Oster, Emily (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-01)
      Forty million people are infected with HIV worldwide; twenty-five million of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper addresses the question of why Africa has been so heavily affected by HIV, and what explains the variation ...