Awareness of Sexually Transmitted Disease and Economic Misfortune Using Search Engine Query Data

Daniel Farhat
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Daniel Farhat: Department of Economics, Radford University, U.S.A.

International Journal of Business and Economics, 2017, vol. 16, issue 1, 101-108

Abstract: This brief study extracts a measure of general interest in sexually transmitted disease for the United States (2004-2012) using Google keyword search data. Trends in this measure are then compared to periods of decline in the US economy.

Keywords: sexually transmitted disease awareness; health and the economy; search engine query data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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