Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael
• 署名单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Stanford University; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20121607
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 2757-2797
• 关键词: randomized-trial; RURAL TANZANIA; Father absence; SOUTH-AFRICA; IMPACT; school; INFORMATION; hiv/aids; RISK; transmission

摘要

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.