The Impact of HIV Prevalence on Schooling Achievement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from the SACMEQ Assessments
(2016) NEKN01 20161Department of Economics
- Abstract (Swedish)
- This paper investigates the impact of HIV prevalence on
schooling achievement. By associating data of schooling test results, for
seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, with regional measures of HIV prevalence for 70 different regions, I find evidence that a general increase in HIV
prevalence of about 1%, lowers general test score results of about 1% of a
standard deviation from the mean. Endogeneity in the HIV variable is addressed by instrumenting HIV prevalence with male circumcision rate.
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- author
- Johansson, Oskar LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKN01 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- SACMEQ, DHS, HIV Prevalence, Schooling Achievement
- language
- English
- id
- 8891422
- date added to LUP
- 2016-09-12 13:28:25
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- 2016-09-12 13:28:25
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