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Emily Oster dreht unser Wissen über AIDS in Afrika um

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Emily Oster untersucht noch einmal die AIDS Statistiken in Afrika aus einer ökonomischen Perspektive und kommt zu einer überraschenden Folgerung: All unser Wissen über die Ausbreitung von HIV auf dem Kontinent ist falsch.

Emily Oster, a University of Chicago economist, uses the dismal science to rethink conventional wisdom, from her Harvard doctoral thesis that took on famed economist Amartya Sen to her recent work debunking assumptions on HIV prevalence in Africa. Full bio »

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