Sexually Transmitted Infections, Sexual Behavior, and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
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Correction Appendix for “Sexually Transmitted Infections, Sexual Behavior and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic”, Quarterly Journal of Economics May 2005
Subsequent to the publication of this paper I have become aware of two errors in Table I, which calculates the transmission rates for the United States and Africa. The numbers for the United States are correct, but those for Africa are not. First, in the Quinn et al (2000) paper the transmission rates should be 21.9% from women to men and 21.3% from men to women; the original paper used 17.5% a...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Quarterly Journal of Economics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0033-5533,1531-4650
DOI: 10.1093/qje/120.2.467