Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Michael Kremer,
Esther Duflo and
Pascaline Dupas
No 10338, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
Abstract:
A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls? dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government?s HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs combined reduce STI more, but cut dropout and pregnancy less, than education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy and STI are determined by one factor (unprotected sex), but consistent with a two-factor model in which choices between committed and casual relationships also affect these outcomes.
Keywords: Education; Fertility; Hiv; Kenya; Pregnancy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I25 I38 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-dev, nep-exp and nep-hea
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (188)
Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP10338 (application/pdf)
CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org
Related works:
Journal Article: Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya (2015)
Working Paper: Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:10338
Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP10338
orders@cepr.org
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Centre for Economic Policy Research, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by (repec@cepr.org).