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Empowering youth: the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador

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  • Kamila Aguirre
  • Vanessa D. Carrión-Yaguana

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This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and strengthened educational curriculum of 2010 provides a potential source of exogenous variation in access to comprehensive sex education. Using a difference-in-differences model, the study finds that the provision of comprehensive sex education in schools contributed to a reduction in teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador.

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  • Kamila Aguirre & Vanessa D. Carrión-Yaguana, 2023. "Empowering youth: the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-107, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. Galárraga, Omar & Harris, Jeffrey E., 2021. "Effect of an abrupt change in sexual and reproductive health policy on teen birth rates in Ecuador, 2008–2017," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 41(C).
    2. Alina Mariuca Ionescu, 2012. "How does education affect labour market outcomes?," Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research, Pro Global Science Association, vol. 4(2), pages 130-144, Decembre.
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    Early pregnancy; Education; Difference-in-differences; Ecuador; Youth;
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