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Dick Durevall

Senior Researcher

Department of Economics
Telephone
+46 31-786 13 50
Mail
dick.durevall@economics.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 640
40530 Göteborg

About Dick Durevall

My research interest is mainly in Development Economics. In recent years, I have worked on various topics related to foreign aid, HIV/AIDS and the effects of digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Research areas

  • Development macroeconomics

  • Global health

  • Food markets

Teaching areas

  • Development economics

  • Macroeconomics

  • Global health

Selected publications

Congdon Fors, H. D. Durevall, A. S. Isaksson and A. Lindskog. Foreign aid and teenage childbearing (2026), Population and Development Review.


Bekele, K. D. Durevall and G.M Fetene. Digitalization and firm resilience: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia. (2025) Telecommunications Policy, 103150.

Durevall, D. and A.S. Isaksson (2024). Aid and child health:A disaggregated analysis of the effects of aid on impaired growth. World Development, 182(October).

Durevall, D. (2023) Gender Policy and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia. PLOS ONE, 18(11),

Durevall, D. Cowden, R., Beckett, S...... Govender, K (2023). Associations of social support with sexual practices, health behaviours, and health outcomes among adolescent girls and young women: Evidence from a longitudinal study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine,

Isaksson, A. S., and Durevall, D. (2023). Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived Institutional quality in Africa. The Review of International Organizations, 18, 523–551.

Govender, K., Durevall, D., Cowden, R. G., Beckett, S., (2020). Depression symptoms, HIV testing, linkage to ART, and viral suppression among women in a high HIV burden district in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A cross-sectional household study. Journal of Health Psychology, 27(4), 936-945.

Durevall, D. (2020). Fairtrade and Market Efficiency: Fairtrade-Labeled Coffee in the Swedish Coffee Market. Economies, 8(2), 30.

Lindskog, A., & Durevall, D. (2020). To educate a woman and to educate a man: Gender‐specific sexual behavior and human immunodeficiency virus responses to an education reform in Botswana. Health Economics.

Durevall, D., Lindskog, A., & George, G. (2019). Education and HIV incidence among young women in KwaZulu-Natal: An association but no evidence of a causal protective effect. PloS one, 14(3).

Durevall, D, Lindskog, A., Intimate partner violence and HIV in ten sub-Saharan African countries: what do the Demographic and Health Surveys tell us? The Lancet Global Health, 3:1, s. E34-E43, 2015

Durevall, D, Loening, J.L., Birru, Y.A., Inflation Dynamics and Food Prices in Ethiopia. Journal of Development Economics, 104, s. 89-106, 2013.