Do the More Educated Know More about Health? Evidence from Schooling and HIV Knowledge in Zimbabwe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4878097 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jorge M Agüero (0000-0003-2054-9634, University of California, Riverside), Prashant Bharadwaj (0000-0003-4361-9906, University of California San Diego) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 489-517 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/675398 |
| OpenAlex | W2067739580 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 29 |
We explore a fundamental link between education and health: knowledge about health. Do the educated know more about how certain diseases are spread and how to prevent them? Using age-specific exposure to an education reform in Zimbabwe, we find that women with more schooling engage in HIV-preventing behavior by having fewer sexual partners and know more about how HIV spreads. An extra year of education raises the probability of having comprehensive knowledge of HIV by nearly 10% and decreases by 7 percentage points the probability of having common misconceptions about HIV. We discuss possible channels for how education led to more knowledge about HIV
Economic growth · Economics · Family medicine · Health care · Health education · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Need to know · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · School Choice and Performance
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| Unique citing works | 39 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |