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Financial incentives are a promising HIV prevention strategy. This paper assesses the effect on HIV incidence of a lottery program in Lesotho with low expected payments but a chance to win a high prize conditional on negative test results for sexually transmitted infections. The intervention resulted in a 21.4 percent reduction in HIV incidence over two years. Lottery incentives appear to be particularly effective for individuals willing to take risks. This paper estimates a model linking sexual behavior to HIV incidence and finds that risk-loving individuals reduce the number of unprotected sexual acts by 0.3/month for every
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Nyqvist, Martina Björkman Using Lotteries to Incentivize Safer Sexual Behavior Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2015
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English
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-7215
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