From Predictive to Protective? Is the Relationship between HIV and Education Changing?
46 Pages Posted: 31 Mar 2013
Date Written: December 24, 2012
Abstract
This study uses two rounds of HIV prevalence data from eight sub-Saharan African DHS to examine the hypothesis that positive association between educational attainment and HIV prevalence is reversing. I compare a group of high prevalence countries to a group of low prevalence countries and find that the education-HIV relationship has weakened in higher prevalence countries among the youngest cohort. This is true both across and within regions. However, the association remains statistically significantly and positive across age cohorts in both country groups. Secondarily, I test for two commonly hypothesized explanations for such a change - the erosion of educational infrastructure in high prevalence areas and the behavior change among the educated. I find evidence of educational erosion among the low prevalence group of countries only. I also find evidence of an educational gradient in protective behavior in both country groups, but it does not appear to affect the Ed-HIV association.
Keywords: HIV, Education, Africa, DHS
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?
Recommended Papers
-
The Relationship between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States
-
Were Compulsory Attendance and Child Labor Laws Effective? An Analysis from 1915 to 1939
-
Does Education Improve Citizenship? Evidence from the U.S. And the U.K
By Kevin S. Milligan, Enrico Moretti, ...
-
Mass Secondary Schooling and the State
By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
-
Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation