Impacts of School-Based HIV Education on Reported Behavior and Knowledge of Adolescent Girls, Evidence from Cameroon

Esther Duflo (1) , Pascaline Dupas (2) , Juliette Seban (3) , Elise Huillery (4, 5, 6)

1 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University - Department of Economics
3 CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
4 Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
5 ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po)
6 Sciences Po - Sciences Po

The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 sets our motivation by presenting a literature review and the resulting research questions that the paper addresses. Section 3 presents the background on HIV education in Cameroon and the experimental design. Section 4 presents our data, outcomes of interest and empirical strategy. Sections 5, 6 and 7 present the 10 treatment effects respectively on sexual behavior, exposure to HIV education and knowledge (mechanisms), and diffusion to peers and spillovers. Section 8 concludes.

Keywords: HIV; sub-Saharan countries; Cameroon; HIV Education

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Economics and Finance

Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Juliette Seban, Elise Huillery. Impacts of School-Based HIV Education on Reported Behavior and Knowledge of Adolescent Girls, Evidence from Cameroon. 2012. ⟨hal-03609994⟩