Seminar: Mortality risk information, survival expectations and sexual behaviors
Professor Adeline Delavande from UTS will be joining the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) with her research seminar 'Mortality risk information, survival expectations and sexual behaviors'.
Individuals in low-income settings are often overly pessimistic about their own survival, suggesting that better knowledge about survival risks might encourage investments in health. This paper provides evidence from a randomized experiment that provided mature adults aged 45+ in Malawi with information about mortality risks. Treated individuals are less likely to engage in risky sexual practices one year after the intervention, and they increase other forward-looking behaviors such as investments in agriculture. Expectations of HIV+ people living longer, which makes the pool of potential partners riskier, are a primary driver of reduced sexual risk taking in response to the intervention.
Adeline Delavande is a professor of Economics at the University of Technology Sydney. She is also an International Co-Investigator of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC) and an external member of Nova Africa. She has held positions at the University of Essex in the UK, the RAND Corporation in the US and the Nova School of Business and Economics in Portugal.
We'll be asking all to mute their microphones during the presentation, but to switch video settings on where possible, so that our presenter can see their audience. Questions and discussion will be invited from the audience at several points during the presentation.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!
Event Details
- Date:
- 3 June 2020 at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Venue:
- This seminar will take place via Zoom - please email shannon.stanwell@monash.edu to register
- Categories:
- Health Economics
Description
Professor Adeline Delavande from UTS will be joining the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) with her research seminar 'Mortality risk information, survival expectations and sexual behaviors'.
Individuals in low-income settings are often overly pessimistic about their own survival, suggesting that better knowledge about survival risks might encourage investments in health. This paper provides evidence from a randomized experiment that provided mature adults aged 45+ in Malawi with information about mortality risks. Treated individuals are less likely to engage in risky sexual practices one year after the intervention, and they increase other forward-looking behaviors such as investments in agriculture. Expectations of HIV+ people living longer, which makes the pool of potential partners riskier, are a primary driver of reduced sexual risk taking in response to the intervention.
Adeline Delavande is a professor of Economics at the University of Technology Sydney. She is also an International Co-Investigator of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC) and an external member of Nova Africa. She has held positions at the University of Essex in the UK, the RAND Corporation in the US and the Nova School of Business and Economics in Portugal.
We'll be asking all to mute their microphones during the presentation, but to switch video settings on where possible, so that our presenter can see their audience. Questions and discussion will be invited from the audience at several points during the presentation.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!