Girls’ Education and HIV Risk: Evidence from Uganda
Marcella Alsan,David M. Cutler +1 more
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It is found that girls' enrollment in secondary education significantly increased the likelihood of abstaining from sex and 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.About:
This article is published in Journal of Health Economics.The article was published on 2013-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 57 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) & Population.read more
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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment
TL;DR: This article found that each primary school constructed per 1,000 children led to an average increase of 0.12 to 0.19 years of education, as well as a 1.5 to 2.7 percent increase in wages.
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Religious Conversion in Colonial Africa
TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of European missionary activities in colonial Africa on the subsequent evolution of culture, as measured by religious beliefs, and found that descendants of ethnic groups that experienced greater missionary contact are today more likely to self-identify as Christian.
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Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men
TL;DR: This paper found that the disclosure of the study in 1972 is correlated with increases in medical mistrust and mortality and decreases in both outpatient and inpatient physician interactions for older black men, and that life expectancy at age 45 for black men fell by up to 1.5 years in response to the disclosure.
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Length of secondary schooling and risk of HIV infection in Botswana: evidence from a natural experiment.
TL;DR: Additional years of secondary schooling had a large protective effect against HIV risk, particularly for women, in Botswana, and increasing progression through secondary school may be a cost-effective HIV prevention measure in HIV-endemic settings.
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The effect of increased primary schooling on adult women's HIV status in Malawi and Uganda: Universal Primary Education as a natural experiment.
TL;DR: Increased primary schooling positively affects women's literacy and spousal schooling attainment in Malawi and age of marriage and current household wealth in Uganda, however primary schooling has no effect on recent (adult) sexual behavior.
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An Economic Analysis of Fertility
TL;DR: This paper analyzed family size decisions within an economic framework and found that fertility was determined primarily by two primitive variables, age at marriage and the frequency of co-operation during marriage, and the development and spread of knowledge about contraceptives during the last century greatly widened the scope of family size decision-making.
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Women as policy makers: evidence from a randomized policy experiment in india
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions and found that women invest more in infrastructure that is directly relevant to the needs of their own genders.
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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the effect of this program on education and wages by combining differences across regions in the number of schools constructed with differences across cohorts induced by the timing of the program.
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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment
TL;DR: This article found that each primary school constructed per 1,000 children led to an average increase of 0.12 to 0.19 years of education, as well as a 1.5 to 2.7 percent increase in wages.
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Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins
Alan B. Krueger,Alan B. Krueger,Alan B. Krueger,Orley Ashenfelter,Orley Ashenfelter,Orley Ashenfelter +5 more
TL;DR: The authors used a survey of identical twins to study the economic returns to schooling and found that an additional year of schooling increases wages by 12-16 percent, a higher estimate of the economic retums to schooling than has been previously found.