Pascaline Dupas

Pascaline Dupas appears in Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School) as the economist who developed a school curriculum about HIV risk after Carol Nkesa described girls’ relationships with older men in [[BusiaKenya|Busia]]. The source says the curriculum taught that older men had higher HIV rates and was tested across dozens of schools.

The episode reports that schools receiving the teaching had fewer pregnancies, suggesting less unprotected sex. Dupas’s example ties Randomized Controlled Trials to locally surfaced knowledge, adolescent health, and the policy question of whether Evidence-Based Development Policy actually changes what governments and schools do.

Connections

• Kenya and Busia, Kenya - study setting.
• Carol Nkesa - local research insight behind the curriculum.
• Development Research Ethics and Human Capital Development - local knowledge and health-education frame.