Education, HIV Status, and Risky Sexual Behavior: How Much Does the Stage of the HIV Epidemic Matter?

Daniela Iorio and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis ()

No 624, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

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.

Keywords: HIV; Demographics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-dem, nep-hea and nep-lab
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