Rebecca L. Thornton, Ph.D. - Publications

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2006 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 

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2023 Kamei A, Sato R, Thornton R. Factors associated with knowledge and use of home pregnancy test kits in Uganda. Plos Global Public Health. 3: e0002165. PMID 37440465 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002165  0.745
2021 Musse I, Thornton R, Ghimire D. How Do Women Learn They Are Pregnant? The Introduction of Clinics and Pregnancy Awareness in Nepal. Studies in Family Planning. PMID 34878176 DOI: 10.1111/sifp.12183  0.705
2021 Kamei A, Sato R, Thornton R. Effect of pregnancy tests on demand for family planning: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda. Reproductive Health. 18: 231. PMID 34781969 DOI: 10.1186/s12978-021-01279-5  0.733
2016 Friedman W, Kremer M, Miguel E, Thornton R. Education as Liberation? Economica. 83: 1-30. PMID 28990009 DOI: 10.1111/Ecca.12168  0.663
2016 El-Khoury M, Thornton R, Chatterji M, Kamhawi S, Sloane P, Halassa M. Counseling Women and Couples on Family Planning: A Randomized Study in Jordan. Studies in Family Planning. 47: 222-38. PMID 27611319 DOI: 10.1111/Sifp.69  0.381
2016 Thornton R, Godlonton S. Medical male circumcision: How does price affect the risk-profile of take-up? Preventive Medicine. PMID 27283093 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ypmed.2016.06.003  0.743
2016 Godlonton S, Munthali A, Thornton R. Responding to risk: Circumcision, information, and HIV prevention Review of Economics and Statistics. 98: 333-349. DOI: 10.1162/Rest_A_00516  0.396
2016 Friedman W, Kremer M, Miguel E, Thornton R. Education as Liberation? Economica. 83: 1-30. DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12168  0.61
2015 El-Khoury M, Thornton R, Chatterji M, Choi SK. Effectiveness of evidence-based medicine on knowledge, attitudes, and practices of family planning providers: a randomized experiment in Jordan. Bmc Health Services Research. 15: 449. PMID 26431847 DOI: 10.1186/S12913-015-1101-Z  0.325
2015 Shacham E, Thornton R, Godlonton S, Murphy R, Gilliland J. Geospatial analysis of condom availability and accessibility in urban Malawi. International Journal of Std & Aids. PMID 25681262 DOI: 10.1177/0956462415571373  0.759
2015 Maughan-Brown B, Godlonton S, Thornton R, Venkataramani AS. What Do People Actually Learn from Public Health Campaigns? Incorrect Inferences About Male Circumcision and Female HIV Infection Risk Among Men and Women in Malawi. Aids and Behavior. 19: 1170-7. PMID 25155700 DOI: 10.1007/S10461-014-0882-0  0.777
2015 Kohler HP, Watkins SC, Behrman JR, Anglewicz P, Kohler IV, Thornton RL, Mkandawire J, Honde H, Hawara A, Chilima B, Bandawe C, Mwapasa V, Fleming P, Kalilani-Phiri L. Cohort Profile: The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH). International Journal of Epidemiology. 44: 394-404. PMID 24639448 DOI: 10.1093/Ije/Dyu049  0.364
2014 Shacham E, Godlonton S, Thornton RL. Perceptions of Male Circumcision among Married Couples in Rural Malawi. Journal of the International Association of Providers of Aids Care. 13: 443-9. PMID 24162614 DOI: 10.1177/2325957413508319  0.764
2014 Chinkhumba J, Godlonton S, Thornton R. The demand for medical male circumcision American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 6: 152-177. DOI: 10.1257/App.6.2.152  0.356
2014 Kerwin JT, Thornton RL, Foley SM. Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Oral Sex Among Rural and Urban Malawian Men International Journal of Sexual Health. 26: 66-77. DOI: 10.1080/19317611.2013.830671  0.35
2013 Godlonton S, Thornton RL. Learning from Others' HIV Testing: Updating Beliefs and Responding to Risk. The American Economic Review. 103: 439-444. PMID 25067844 DOI: 10.1257/Aer.103.3.439  0.766
2013 Maughan-Brown BG, Venkataramani A, Godlonton S, Thornton R. P4.058 Incorrect Inferences About Male Circumcision and Female HIV Infection Risk: Evidence from a Randomised Trial in Malawi Sexually Transmitted Infections. 89. DOI: 10.1136/Sextrans-2013-051184.0956  0.472
2012 Thornton RL. HIV Testing, Subjective Beliefs and Economic Behavior. Journal of Development Economics. 99. PMID 24369439 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jdeveco.2012.03.001  0.442
2012 Kohler HP, Thornton R. Conditional Cash Transfers and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Unconditionally Promising? The World Bank Economic Review. 26: 165-190. PMID 24319306 DOI: 10.1093/Wber/Lhr041  0.452
2012 Godlonton S, Thornton R. Peer effects in learning HIV results. Journal of Development Economics. 97: 118-129. PMID 22081739 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jdeveco.2010.12.003  0.756
2011 Kerwin JT, Foley SM, Thornton RL, Basinga P, Chinkhumba J. Missing safer sex strategies in HIV Prevention: A call for further research African Population Studies. 25: 286-297. DOI: 10.11564/25-2-232  0.45
2009 Angotti N, Bula A, Gaydosh L, Kimchi EZ, Thornton RL, Yeatman SE. Increasing the acceptability of HIV counseling and testing with three C's: convenience, confidentiality and credibility. Social Science & Medicine (1982). 68: 2263-70. PMID 19375208 DOI: 10.1016/J.Socscimed.2009.02.041  0.437
2009 Obare F, Fleming P, Anglewicz P, Thornton R, Martinson F, Kapatuka A, Poulin M, Watkins S, Kohler HP. Acceptance of repeat population-based voluntary counselling and testing for HIV in rural Malawi. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 85: 139-44. PMID 18927181 DOI: 10.1136/Sti.2008.030320  0.415
2009 Kremer M, Miguel E, Thornton R. Incentives to learn Review of Economics and Statistics. 91: 437-456. DOI: 10.1162/Rest.91.3.437  0.647
2008 Thornton RL. The Demand for, and Impact of, Learning HIV Status. The American Economic Review. 98: 1829-1863. PMID 21687831 DOI: 10.1257/Aer.98.5.1829  0.461
2003 Jensen R, Thornton R. Early female marriage in the developing world Gender & Development. 11: 9-19. DOI: 10.1080/741954311  0.366
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