The Demand for, and Impact of, Learning HIV Status.

By R. Thornton. The American Economic Review, 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, Safety Research

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In General Health Professions

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4. George Loewenstein
5. Brigham R. Frandsen
6. Delia Baldassarri
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Citations in the corpus

• The Demand for, and Avoidance of, Information (2015, neutral): “…and even when the results of the test could provide valuable information for decision making (e.g., whether to obtain treatment) (Lyter et al., 1987; Lerman et al., 1996; Lerman et al., 1999; Caplin and Eliaz, 2003; Köszegi, 2003; Thornton, 2008; Oster et al., 2013; see also Sweeny et al., 2010).”
• Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy (2014, background): “Offering a tiny incentive of around $0.15 (i.e. about 10 per cent of the daily wage) more than doubled the fraction of people who picked up their test results (Thornton 2008).”
• How Much Would You Pay to Resolve Long-Run Risk? (2014, neutral): “There is also some evidence from field experiments that many individuals choose not to learn their test results for various diseases, see, e.g., Thornton (2008) and Oster et. al.”
• Field experiments across the social sciences (2017, background): “New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press Thornton RL. 2008.”
• Judging Judge Fixed Effects (2019, background): “…influence program take-up or enrollment (Hastings and Weinstein, 2008; Barghava and Manoli, 2015; Bergman et al., 2017) and randomized controlled trials with multiple intervention arms all aimed an increasing participation in a single treatment (Olken, 2007; McKenzie et al., 2008; Thornton, 2008).”
• Information Gaps: A Theory of Preferences Regarding the Presence and Absence of Information (2018, background): “For example, many at-risk individuals avoid getting tested for HIV despite the availability of life-saving treatment options (Thornton, 2008).”
• Factorial Designs, Model Selection, and (Incorrect) Inference in Randomized Experiments (2019, neutral): “Thornton (2008) analyzes an experiment in which individuals in rural Malawi are randomly assigned monetary incentives to learn their HIV results after being tested.”