Girls' education and HIV risk: evidence from Uganda
Alsan, M.M.; Cutler, D.M.
Journal of Health Economics 32(5): 863-872
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 1879-1646 PMID: 23911724 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.06.002Document Number: 576666
Uganda is widely viewed as a public health success for curtailing its HIV/AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s. The period of rapid HIV decline coincided with a dramatic rise in girls' secondary school enrollment. We instrument for this enrollment with distance to school, conditional on a rich set of demographic and locational controls, including distance to market center. We find that girls' enrollment in secondary education significantly increased the likelihood of abstaining from sex. Using a triple-difference estimator, we find that some of the schooling increase among young women was in response to a 1990 affirmative action policy giving women an advantage over men on University applications.
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