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To educate a woman and to educate a man: Gender-specific sexual behavior and human immunodeficiency virus responses to an education reform in Botswana
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- Lindskog, Annika, 1979 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik,Centrum för globalisering och utveckling (GCGD),Department of Economics,Gothenburg Centre for Globalization and Development (GCGD)
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- Durevall, Dick, 1954 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Centrum för globalisering och utveckling (GCGD),Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik,Gothenburg Centre for Globalization and Development (GCGD),Department of Economics
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- 2020-12-28
- 2021
- English.
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In: Health Economics (United Kingdom). - : Wiley. - 1057-9230 .- 1099-1050. ; 30:3, s. 642-658
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- © 2020 The Authors. Health Economics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This study analyses mechanisms that link education to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with a focus on gender differences, using data from four nationally representative surveys in Botswana. To estimate the causal effect, an exogenous 1-year increase of junior secondary school is used. The key finding is that women and men responded differently to the reform. Among women, it led to delayed sexual debut and reduced time between first sex and marriage by up to a year. Among men, risky sex, measured by the likelihood of concurrent sexual partnerships and paying for sex, increased. The increase in risky sex among men is likely to be due to the education reform's positive impact on income. The reform reduced the likelihood of HIV infection sharply among women, especially among relatively young women age 18–24. The impact on men's likelihood of HIV infection is uncertain.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- education
- gender
- HIV
- sexual behavior
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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