Economic Booms and Risky Sexual Behavior: Evidence from Zambian Copper Mining Cities

Nicholas Wilson

No 2010-21, Department of Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: Existing studies suggest that individual and household level economic shocks affect the demand for and supply of risky sex. However, little evidence exists on the effects of an aggregate shock on equilibrium risky sexual behavior. This paper examines the effects of the early twenty-first century copper boom on risky sexual behavior in Zambian copper mining cities. The results indicate that the copper boom substantially reduced rates of transactional sex and multiple partnerships in copper mining cities. These effects were partly concentrated among young adults and copper boom induced in-migration to mining cities appears to have contributed to these reductions.

Keywords: commodity shocks; copper mining; economic growth; HIV/AIDS; Zambia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 J10 O12 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2010-10, Revised 2011-10
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