Linking poverty and income shocks to risky sexual behaviour: evidence from a panel study of young adults in Cape Town
| dc.contributor.author | Dinkelman, Taryn | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lam, David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Leibbrandt, Murray | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-23T09:26:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-03-23T09:26:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-14T08:54:41Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Is there a link between household income and income stress, and risky sexual behaviour of young people? Anecdotal and qualitative evidence suggests this may be the case, but there is little quantitative research measuring this relationship. We use two waves of new data from the Cape Area Panel Study to investigate this link for 2,993 African and coloured youths aged 14 to 22 in 2002. In the process, we discuss one type of research design that could allow for a causal interpretation of the effect of income poverty on HIV risk. This design plausibly separates out the effect of income stress from the effect of living in a poor household by comparing behaviours across households with and without negative economic shocks, conditional on baseline income. Our results indicate that females in poorer households are more likely to be sexually active in 2002 and more likely to sexually debut by 2005. In addition, girls in households experiencing negative economic shocks are more likely to reduce condom use between 2002 and 2005. However, they are less likely to have multiple partners in 2002 or have transitioned to multiple partners by 2005. Males who experienced a negative shock are more likely to have multiple partners. Despite the tight research design for assessing shocks, the findings on the impacts of shocks do not generate clear recommendations for policy. There appears to be no systematic difference in condom use at last sex by household income levels or income shocks. | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2008.00170.x | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Dinkelman, T., Lam, D., & Leibbrandt, M. (2008). Linking poverty and income shocks to risky sexual behaviour: evidence from a panel study of young adults in Cape Town. <i>South African Journal of Economics</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27709 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Dinkelman, Taryn, David Lam, and Murray Leibbrandt "Linking poverty and income shocks to risky sexual behaviour: evidence from a panel study of young adults in Cape Town." <i>South African Journal of Economics</i> (2008) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27709 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Dinkelman, T., Lam, D., & Leibbrandt, M. (2008). Linking poverty and income shocks to risky sexual behaviour: evidence from a panel study of young adults in Cape Town. South African Journal of Economics, 76(s1), S52-S74. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Dinkelman, Taryn AU - Lam, David AU - Leibbrandt, Murray AB - Is there a link between household income and income stress, and risky sexual behaviour of young people? Anecdotal and qualitative evidence suggests this may be the case, but there is little quantitative research measuring this relationship. We use two waves of new data from the Cape Area Panel Study to investigate this link for 2,993 African and coloured youths aged 14 to 22 in 2002. In the process, we discuss one type of research design that could allow for a causal interpretation of the effect of income poverty on HIV risk. This design plausibly separates out the effect of income stress from the effect of living in a poor household by comparing behaviours across households with and without negative economic shocks, conditional on baseline income. Our results indicate that females in poorer households are more likely to be sexually active in 2002 and more likely to sexually debut by 2005. In addition, girls in households experiencing negative economic shocks are more likely to reduce condom use between 2002 and 2005. However, they are less likely to have multiple partners in 2002 or have transitioned to multiple partners by 2005. Males who experienced a negative shock are more likely to have multiple partners. Despite the tight research design for assessing shocks, the findings on the impacts of shocks do not generate clear recommendations for policy. There appears to be no systematic difference in condom use at last sex by household income levels or income shocks. DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Journal of Economics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2008 T1 - Linking poverty and income shocks to risky sexual behaviour: evidence from a panel study of young adults in Cape Town TI - Linking poverty and income shocks to risky sexual behaviour: evidence from a panel study of young adults in Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27709 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27709 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Dinkelman T, Lam D, Leibbrandt M. Linking poverty and income shocks to risky sexual behaviour: evidence from a panel study of young adults in Cape Town. South African Journal of Economics. 2008; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27709. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | School of Economics | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Commerce | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Journal of Economics | |
| dc.source.uri | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/18136982 | |
| dc.subject.other | Youth | |
| dc.subject.other | sexual behaviour | |
| dc.subject.other | household poverty | |
| dc.subject.other | household shocks | |
| dc.subject.other | community poverty | |
| dc.title | Linking poverty and income shocks to risky sexual behaviour: evidence from a panel study of young adults in Cape Town | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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