Disclosure of HIV status is routinely promoted as a public health measure to prevent transmission and enhance treatment adherence support. While studies show a range of positive and negative outcomes associated with disclosure, it has also been documented that disclosing is a challenging and ongoing process. This article aims to describe the role of health-care workers in Central and Nairobi pr...

Disclosure of HIV status has been the focus of three decades of research, which have revealed its complex relations to many behaviors involved in HIV prevention and treatment, and exposed its central role in managing the HIV epidemic. The causes and consequences of disclosure acts have recently been the subject of several theoretical models. Although it is acknowledged that individual disclosur...

This paper examines whether the different types of block shareholdings will have a different impact on the extent of Web voluntary disclosure during the differential privatization stages. Prior literature suggests that block ownership may have a substitutive or complementary monitoring effect on corporate disclosure. However, for economies transferring from state endowment to being privately he...

The Web form is the primary mechanism to collect personal data from individuals on the Web. Privacy concerns, time spent, and typing effort act as a major deterrent to completing Web forms. Yet consumers regularly provide more data than required. In a field experiment, we recruited 1500 Web users to complete a form asking for ten items of identity and profile information of varying levels of se...

Abstract Classical models of voluntary disclosure feature two economic forces: the existence an adverse selection problem (e.g., a manager possesses some private information) and cost ameliorating costs associated with disclosure). Traditionally these forces are modelled independently. In this paper, we use simple model to motivate empirical predictions in setting where jointly determined––wher...