at Williams College
(on leave at the University of California, Berkeley, 2011-12)
Office: Schapiro Hall Rm. 314
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/nicholaslwilson/
E-mail: Nicholas.L.Wilson@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4868
Fax: (413)597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
24 Hopkins Hall Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267
Brown University, Ph.D. in Economics, 2008
Brown University, M.A. in Economics, 2004
Harvard University, M.P.A. in International Development, 2001
Reed College, B.A. in Economics, 1999
Curriculum Vitae
Development economics
Health economics
HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Antiretroviral Therapy and Demand for HIV Testing: Evidence from Zambia (under review)
Are Antiretroviral Drugs (ARVs) Saving the Second Generation? Evidence from Subsidized ARV Distribution in Zambia (with Margaret Chidothe and Adrienne Lucas)
Economic Booms and Risky Sexual Behavior: Evidence from Zambian Copper Mining Cities (revision requested and resubmitted)
Fertility Responses to Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
HIV Prevention at Scale: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Child Mortality in Zambia
Identity and Mobility: Historical Fractionalization, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice in the American Midwest (with Kaivan Munshi, revised version of NBER Working Paper No. 13717) (under review)
Is Sex Like Driving? Risk Compensation Associated with Male Circumcision in Kisumu, Kenya (with Wentao Xiong and Christine Mattson) (under review)
Bad Men, Bad Women, and Household Bargaining: Domestic Violence and STI Transmission (with Tara Watson)
Child Mortality and Fertility at the Turn of the Millenium (with Joseph Cummins and William Dow)
Circumcision and Risky Sexual Behavior in Zambia: Implications for Mass Male Circumcision Campaigns
Does the ‘Kindest Cut’ Cut Both Ways? Evidence from the Demographic Health Surveys
Heterogeneous Selection in a Voluntary Mass Public Health Campaign: Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Zambia
Matching Markets with Asymmetric Information: Marital Shopping in a HIV/AIDS Pandemic
To Know, or Not to Know? Advantageous Selection in a Voluntary Information-Based Health Service
Selected Work Experience
UNAIDS Liberia, Consultant, 2010
Brown University, Teaching Assistant, 2004 – 2008
Zambia Central Statistical Office, Visiting Researcher, Fall 2006
UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Consultant, 2002
The World Bank, Junior Professional Associate, 2001 – 2002
Harvard University, Teaching Assistant, 2001
Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, Visiting Researcher, Summer 2000