Behrman, J.A., Peterman, A, & Palermo, T. (2017). Does keeping adolescent girls in school protect against sexual violence? quasi-experimental evidence from East and Southern Africa. Journal of Adolescent Health. 60(184), e190.

Abstract

This study used quasiexperimental methods to explore the effects of increased grade attainment on young women’s experience of sexual violence in Malawi and Uganda. Increasing schooling resulted in a number of benefits, although it reduced lifetime sexual violence only in Uganda.