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

Carolina Population Center

 

 

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.