Education, HIV status and risky sexual behavior : how much does the stage of the HIV epidemic matter?
| dc.contributor.author | IORIO, Daniela | |
| dc.contributor.author | SANTAEULÀLIA-LLOPIS, Raül | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-25T12:20:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-25T12:20:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We study the relationship between education and HIV status using nationally representative data from 39 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, we construct an innovative algorithm that systematically defines aggregate stages of the HIV epidemic in a comparable manner across time and across space. Second, we exploit the variation in the aggregate HIV stages in the DHS data, and find that the education gradient in HIV shows a U-shaped (positive-zero-positive) pattern over the course of the epidemic. Further, educational disparities in the number of extramarital partners are largely consistent with the evolution of the education gradient in HIV. We propose a simple theoretical model of risky sex choices that accounts for these stylized facts. | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1725-6704 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/41364 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI ECO | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2016/09 | en |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
| dc.subject | Education | |
| dc.subject | HIV | |
| dc.subject | Risky sex | |
| dc.subject | Epidemiological stages | |
| dc.subject | I15 | |
| dc.subject | I25 | |
| dc.title | Education, HIV status and risky sexual behavior : how much does the stage of the HIV epidemic matter? | en |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| person.identifier.other | 37082 | |
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