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SAGE Open, 2018 The “blesser and blessee” phenomenon has been prominent in South African media since the year 2016. This is a form of transactional sex in which older rich men (“blessers”) tend to entice young women (“blessees”) with money and expensive gifts in ...
Johannes N. Mampane
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Revisiting the economics of transactional sex: evidence from Tanzania [PDF]
Review of African Political Economy, 2015 Transactional sex has been identified as one of the key structural drivers of the HIV epidemic. Mainstream economic analyses of this practice primarily conceptualise transactional sex in the language of rational choice, with the focus on behavioural decisions that women make over whether to engage in transactional interactions (or not). However, whilst
Deane, Kevin D, Wamoyi, Joyce
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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The Value of Financial Advice and Portfolio Rebalancing for Retirement Savings
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Utilising a sample of over 55,000 retirement portfolio rebalances, we examine (i) who seeks financial advice prior to rebalancing, and (ii) compare portfolio outcomes between advised and self‐directed rebalances. We find that wealthier, older, and female members are more likely to receive financial advice prior to rebalancing, and that advice ...
Kirsten L. MacDonald +3 more
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020 Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Uganda are at risk of early sexual debut, unwanted pregnancy, violence, and disproportionally high HIV infection rates, driven in part by transactional sex.
Nambusi Kyegombe +5 more
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Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2020 Introduction: Men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TW) in Colombia are highly affected by HIV. To improve understanding of the role of HIV risk behaviors in HIV acquisition, we used the syndemic framework, a useful concept to inform ...
Beatriz Alvarado +3 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Although transactional sex is common in many sexual relationships, there has been little research into the degree to which the practice is considered exploitative in the settings in which it is practiced.
Joyce Wamoyi +5 more
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract We experimentally elicit views of what exploitation is from over 2,000 subjects. Our experimental design does not test existing theories of exploitation. Rather, it focuses on more fundamental properties that are the building blocks for these theories.
Benjamin Ferguson +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2017 Background Evidence shows that HIV prevalence among young women in sub-Saharan Africa increases almost five-fold between ages 15 and 24, with almost a quarter of young women infected by their early-to mid-20s.
Meghna Ranganathan +7 more
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