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Analysis of economic and educational spillover effects in PEPFAR countries

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  • William Crown
  • Dhwani Hariharan
  • Jennifer Kates
  • Gary Gaumer
  • Monica Jordan
  • Clare Hurley
  • Yiqun Luan
  • Allyala Nandakumar

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The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been credited with saving millions lives and helping to change the trajectory of the global human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. This study assesses whether PEPFAR has had impacts beyond health by examining changes in five economic and educational outcomes in PEPFAR countries: the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth rate; the share of girls and share of boys, respectively, who are out of school; and female and male employment rates. We constructed a panel data set for 157 low- and middle-income countries between 1990 and 2018 to estimate the macroeconomic impacts of PEPFAR. Our PEPFAR group included 90 countries that had received PEPFAR support over the period. Our comparison group included 67 low- and middle-income countries that had not received any PEPFAR support or had received minimal PEPFAR support (

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  • William Crown & Dhwani Hariharan & Jennifer Kates & Gary Gaumer & Monica Jordan & Clare Hurley & Yiqun Luan & Allyala Nandakumar, 2023. "Analysis of economic and educational spillover effects in PEPFAR countries," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(12), pages 1-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0289909
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289909
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