Sex, Power, and Adolescence: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors

We would like to thank participants at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, NYU, Columbia, U of Michigan, BREAD, NBER Health, NBER Gender, Boston University, UCSD, UT Austin, UCLA, UC Riverside, WADES, OU, Rice University, Tinbergen, Erasmus University, Georgetown, George Washington University, and the World Bank for their valuable comments and feedback. We thank Debraj Ray and Arun Chandrasekhar for many helpful conversations. Gabriela Rubio and Jiayin Zhai provided excellent research assistance. We thank the late SK Tariquzzaman for tirelessly leading the fieldwork. We gratefully acknowledge funding for this project from the Hewlett Foundation and the Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) at the World Bank. Empirical analysis is pre-registered through the AEA RCT registry (RCT ID: AEARCTR-0001305). The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. For questions or comments please contact Manisha Shah at ManishaShah@berkeley.edu. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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• randomized controlled trials registry entry

• August 31, 2023