Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya

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Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya

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Dupas, Pascaline

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Pascaline Dupas

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An information campaign that provided Kenyan teenagers in randomly selected schools with the information that HIV prevalence was much higher among adult men and their partners than among teenage boys led to a 65% decrease in the incidence of pregnancies by adult partners among teenage girls in the treatment group relative to the comparison. This suggests a large reduction in the incidence of unprotected cross-generational sex. The information campaign did not increase pregnancies among teenage couples. These results suggest that the behavioral choices of teenagers are responsive to information on the relative risks of different varieties of a risky activity. Policies that focus only on the elimination of a risky activity and do not address risk reduction strategies may be ignoring a margin on which they can have substantial impact.

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- Pascaline Dupas, 2006. "Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar Daddies, and HIV in Kenya," Natural Field Experiments 0041, The Field Experiments Website. [Downloadable!]

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Esther Duflo & Pascaline Dupas & Michael Kremer & Samuel Sinei, 2006. "Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya," Natural Field Experiments 0039, The Field Experiments Website. [Downloadable!]
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