title: Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya.
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.
authors.affiliation: MIT Economics Department, 50 Memorial Drive, Building E52 room 252G, Cambridge, MA 02142.
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Duflo
authors.affiliation: Stanford Economics Department, 579 Serra Mall, CA 94306.
authors.forename: Pascaline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dupas
authors.affiliation: Harvard University Department of Economics, Littauer Center, 1805 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kremer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003020:Clothing / Q000191:economics; D017280:Condoms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004493:Education / Q000191:economics*; D004522:Educational Status; D005114:Extramarital Relations; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006558:Herpes Genitalis / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012736:Sex Education / Q000191:economics*; D012746:Sexual Abstinence; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012747:Sexual Partners; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D047568:Unsafe Sex; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Sexually Transmitted Infections; information; prevention; sexual behavior; subsidies