44 min
S1E6 : Legal Origins & Feminization of HIV Econ-on-Mics
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Dr. Siwan Anderson, Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia and Ieda Matavelli, PhD candidate of Economics at the Vancouver School of Economics discuss a range of research topics that Dr. Anderson is passionate about and has been researching on since decades. They range from research on missing women - a term coined by Amartya Sen to address the worsening sex ratio (number of females per 1,000 males) in countries such as India and China, feminization of HIV specifically in Africa and the utmost importance of improving legal rights of women outside of marriage.
Professor Anderson also discusses her super interesting paper Intimate Partner Violence & Female Property Rights in which she parses through data across Sub-Saharan Africa. She also talks at length about her research paper - Legal Origins and Female HIV where she delves deeper to understand the feminization of HIV and the possible reasons of why Africa is the only continent where women tend to die more in number when compared to men due to HIV.
She has some excellent advice for researchers who are starting out on a new idea or subject area and stresses why reading its history and tracing its inception is the best way to understand anything.
Dr. Siwan Anderson, Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia and Ieda Matavelli, PhD candidate of Economics at the Vancouver School of Economics discuss a range of research topics that Dr. Anderson is passionate about and has been researching on since decades. They range from research on missing women - a term coined by Amartya Sen to address the worsening sex ratio (number of females per 1,000 males) in countries such as India and China, feminization of HIV specifically in Africa and the utmost importance of improving legal rights of women outside of marriage.
Professor Anderson also discusses her super interesting paper Intimate Partner Violence & Female Property Rights in which she parses through data across Sub-Saharan Africa. She also talks at length about her research paper - Legal Origins and Female HIV where she delves deeper to understand the feminization of HIV and the possible reasons of why Africa is the only continent where women tend to die more in number when compared to men due to HIV.
She has some excellent advice for researchers who are starting out on a new idea or subject area and stresses why reading its history and tracing its inception is the best way to understand anything.
44 min