Background HIV serostatus disclosure is an immense challenge for adolescents living with HIV, their caregivers, and health workers. In Zambia, however, little guidance is available from the adolescents' point of view on the HIV disclosure process. Objective This study aimed to examine the setting of HIV serostatus disclosure for adolescents, its impacts on them, and their suggestions on the b...

HIV prevalence in Kenya remains steady at 5.6% for adults 15 years and older, and 0.9% among children aged below 14 years. Parents and children are known to practice unprotected sex, which has implications for continued HIV spread within the country. Additionally, due to increased accessibility of antiretroviral therapy, more HIV-positive persons are living longer. Therefore, the need for HIV d...

How and why are children assigned to specific third grade teachers? Would it be a good thing if public schools had formal mechanisms for informing parents about who makes those teacher assignments and about what criteria they use? Might it be even better if parents were told precisely how their own child's assignment is made? This is where we started. These questions, which no one else seems to...

Statistical agencies are keen to devise ways to provide research access to data while protecting confidentiality. Although methods of statistical disclosure risk assessment are now well established in the statistical science literature, the integration of these methods by agencies into a general scientific basis for their practice still proves difficult. This paper seeks to review and clarify t...

In public-policy discussions about corporate disclosure, more is typically judged better than less. In particular, better disclosure is seen as a way to reduce the agency problems that plague firms. We show that this view is incomplete. In particular, our theoretical analysis shows that increased disclosure is a two-edged sword: More information permits principals to make better decisions; but ...

This article introduces the functional model of self-disclosure on social network sites by integrating a functional theory of self-disclosure and research on audience representations as situational cues for activating interpersonal goals. According to this model, people pursue strategic goals and disclose differently depending on social media affordances, and self-disclosure goals mediate betwe...

This article introduces the functional model of self-disclosure on social network sites by integrating a functional theory of self-disclosure and research on audience representations as situational cues for activating interpersonal goals. According to this model, people pursue strategic goals and disclose differently depending on social media affordances, and self-disclosure goals mediate betwe...

Received: 30 March 2009 Revised: 22 September 2009 2nd Revision: 9 December 2009 Accepted: 11 December 2009 Abstract The global use of online communities has exploded to involve hundreds of millions of users. Despite the tremendous social impact and business opportunities afforded by these communities, little information systems (IS) research has addressed them – especially in a cross-cultural ...

I study the social value of information in a New Keynesian model of monopolistic pricesetting with dispersed information, where the central bank can choose what information to share with the public. Under flexible prices, more disclosure is welfare improving: it reduces price dispersion and moves the economy closer to the first-best allocation. Under Calvo [1983] price stickiness, however, disc...

Corporate governance scandals and the global financial crisis have led to calls for better risk disclosure. However, such disclosure may be stifled by the proprietary cost hypothesis that firms limit voluntary disclosure to avoid risk of adverse actions. Against this background, several studies have examined the determinants of risk disclosure in corporate annual reports. The purpose of this pa...