Emily Oster, a University of Chicago economist, looks at the stats on AIDS in Africa — and comes up with a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is wrong. We look for root causes such as poverty and poor health care — but we also need to factor in, say, the price of coffee, and the routes of long-haul truckers. In short, she says, there is a lot we don't know; and our assumptions about what we do know may keep us from finding the best way to stop the disease. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 15:45.)
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wazer alwazer commented on Dec 13 2008
Emily Oster is right
But is the African continent is the biggest continent where AIDS spread
We must intensify health care and humanitarian assistance there
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Jessica PIckett commented on Jul 19 2007
Mead Over at the Center for Global Development has analyzed Emily’s findings in the context of other research about concurrent sexual relationships as a driver of the AIDS epidemic here: http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/2007/07/invisible_cure.php
Pablo Halkyard commented on Jul 12 2007
You can see why she is controversial. I also very much enjoyed this short piece of hers in Esquire from a while back:
http://www.esquire.com/features/best-n-brightest-2006/ESQ1206BOWEN_206_2