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Emily Conover

Professor of Economics, Hamilton College
Verified email at hamilton.edu
Cited by 1350

Predictive validity of global deficit scores in detecting neuropsychological impairment in HIV infection

…, SP Woods, R Gonzalez, E Conover… - Journal of clinical and …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The current study explored the predictive validity of the Global Deficit Score (GDS) approach
in summarizing neuropsychological (NP) test results, and specifically in detecting HIV-…

Manipulation of social program eligibility

A Camacho, E Conover - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011 - aeaweb.org
We document how manipulation of a targeting system for social welfare programs evolves
over time. First, there was strategic behavior of some local politicians in the timing of the …

The influence of social relationships on pro-environment behaviors

J Videras, AL Owen, E Conover, S Wu - Journal of Environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
We examine how social relationships are related to pro-environment behaviors. We use new
data from a nationally representative US sample to estimate latent cluster models in which …

Effects of Colombia's social protection system on workers' choice between formal and informal employment

A Camacho, E Conover, A Hoyos - The World Bank Economic …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We examine whether the Colombian government's expansion of social programs in the early
1990s, particularly the publicly provided health insurance, discouraged formal employment. …

Conditional cash transfers, political participation, and voting behavior

JE Baez, A Camacho, E Conover… - World Bank Policy …, 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia,
Familias en Accion, on intent to vote, turnout and electoral choice. For identification the …

Deficient strategic control of verbal encoding and retrieval in individuals with methamphetamine dependence.

SP Woods, JD Rippeth, E Conover… - …, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Methamphetamine (MA) dependence is associated with deficits in episodic verbal memory,
but the cognitive mechanisms underlying such impairments are not known. The authors …

A validation of the Test of Memory Malingering in a forensic psychiatric setting

…, T Orr, SP Woods, E Conover… - Journal of Clinical and …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
The Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) has not been adequately validated in a forensic
psychiatric setting. Dissimulation of cognitive impairment, as assessed by the TOMM, was …

The impact of receiving price and climate information in the agricultural sector

A Camacho, E Conover - Documento CEDE, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Previous studies indicate that Colombian farmers make production decisions based on
informal sources of information, such as family and neighbors or tradition. In this paper we …

Effects of subsidized health insurance on newborn health in a developing country

A Camacho, E Conover - Economic Development and …, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
Colombia’s rapid and considerable expansion of health insurance coverage in the 1990s
provides an opportunity to evaluate in a developing country whether health insurance …

The impact of receiving SMS price and weather information on small scale farmers in Colombia

A Camacho, E Conover - World development, 2019 - Elsevier
Small-scale farmers in developing countries often make production and sale decisions based
on imprecise, informal, and out-of-date sources of information, such as family, neighbors, …