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Two Sides of Gender : Sex, Power, and Adolescence

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  • Shah,Manisha
  • Seager,Jennifer
  • Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.
  • Goldstein,Markus P.

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Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violenceacross the globe. This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized controlled trial that offers females a goalsetting activity to improve their sexual and reproductive health outcomes and offers their male partners a soccerintervention, which educates and inspires young men to make better sexual and reproductive health choices. Bothinterventions reduce female reports of intimate partner violence. Impacts are larger among females who were alreadysexually active at baseline. The paper develops a game theoretic model to understand the mechanisms at play. Inline with the model, the soccer intervention improves male attitudes around violence and sexual and reproductive healthand reduces sexual activity. In the goal setting arm, females take more control of their sexual and reproductivehealth by exiting violent relationships. Females in this arm have higher quality partners at endline.

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  • Shah,Manisha & Seager,Jennifer & Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C. & Goldstein,Markus P., 2022. "Two Sides of Gender : Sex, Power, and Adolescence," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10072, The World Bank.
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