Harsha Thirumurthy
Assistant Professor of Health Economics
Department
of Health Policy and Management
Gillings School
of Global Public Health
University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Faculty Fellow
Tel: 919-966-9756 (SPH)
Tel: 919-966-7481 (CPC)
Fax: 919-966-6961 (SPH)
E-mail: harsha [at] unc [dot] edu
CV (pdf)
Published and forthcoming papers
The economic impact of AIDS treatment: labor supply in western Kenya (with Markus Goldstein and Joshua Graff Zivin), Journal of Human Resources 2008; 43(3): 511-552.
ARV treatment and time allocation to household tasks: evidence from Kenya (with Giovanna d’Adda, Markus Goldstein, Joshua Graff Zivin, and Mabel Nangami), African Development Review 2009; 21(1): 180-208.
AIDS treatment and intrahousehold resource allocation: children’s nutrition and schooling (with Markus Goldstein and Joshua Graff Zivin), Journal of Public Economics (in press).
The household impacts of treating HIV/AIDS in developing countries, Proceedings of the Annual
Bank Conference in Development Economics
2008 (in press).
Working papers
Health worker absence, HIV testing and behavioral change: evidence from western Kenya (with Markus Goldstein, Joshua Graff Zivin, James Habyarimana, and Cristian Pop-Eleches), August 2008. Under review.
AIDS treatment programs and sexual behavior, in progress.
The
economic case for continued scale-up of HAART, July 2008. Under review.