Two Sides of Gender : Sex, Power, and Adolescence
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. The paper develops a game theoretic model to understand the mechanisms at play. In line with the model, the soccer intervention improves male attitudes around violence and sexual and reproductive health and reduces sexual activity. In the goal setting arm, females take more control of their sexual and reproductive health by exiting violent relationships. Females in this arm have higher quality partners at endline.
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| Format: | Working Paper biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022-06
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| Subjects: | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE, ADOLESCENT SEXUAL ABUSE, INTERVENTIONS FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE, IMPROVING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OUTCOMES, ADOLESCENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, BEHAVIOR CHANGE GAMES, ADOLESCENT GIRLS GOAL SETTING, ADOLESCENT HEALTH, VIOLENCE AGAINST GIRLS, ADOLESCENT EDUCATION SPORT-BASED PEDAGOGY, ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR CHOICES, AFRICA GENDER POLICY, GENDER INNOVATION LAB, WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT, WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099304206012293100/IDU0e16f6a0d098000457009ab707594bb2c52f8 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37496 |
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| Summary: | 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. The paper develops a game
theoretic model to understand the mechanisms at play. In
line with the model, the soccer intervention improves male
attitudes around violence and sexual and reproductive health
and reduces sexual activity. In the goal setting arm,
females take more control of their sexual and reproductive
health by exiting violent relationships. Females in this arm
have higher quality partners at endline. |
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