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

Author(s): Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer

Publication Date: January 2015

Keyword(s): education, fertility, HIV, Kenya and pregnancy

Programme Area(s): Development Economics

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.

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Duflo, E, Dupas, P and Kremer, M. 2015. 'Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=10338