El Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), te invita al seminario: Sex, Power, and Adolescence: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors".

Presentado por: Manisha Shah.

El seminario se llevará a cabo el 24 de noviembre de 12:00 a 13:30 horas en la Sala de Seminarios de Santa Teresa.

Abstract:

Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence across the globe. This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized controlled trial that offers females a goal setting activity to improve their sexual and reproductive health outcomes and offers their male partners a soccer intervention, which educates and inspires young men to make better sexual and reproductive health choices. Both interventions reduce female reports of intimate partner violence. Impacts are larger among females who were already sexually active at baseline. We develop a model to understand the mechanisms at play. The soccer intervention improves male attitudes around violence and risky sexual behaviors. Females in the goal setting arm take more control of their sexual and reproductive health by exiting violent relationships. Both of these mechanisms drive reductions in IPV.