Selected working papers. A full list of of manuscripts under review and working papers are on my CV.
Sex, Power, and Adolescence: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors (Manisha Shah, Jennifer Seager, Markus Goldstein, and Joao Montalvao)
Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence across the globe. This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized controlled trial that offers females a goal setting activity to improve their sexual and reproductive health outcomes and offers their male partners a soccer intervention, which educates and inspires young men to make better sexual and reproductive health choices. Both interventions reduce female reports of intimate partner violence. Impacts are larger among females who were already sexually active at baseline. We develop a model to understand the mechanisms at play. The soccer intervention improves male attitudes around violence and risky sexual behaviors. Females in the goal setting arm take more control of their sexual and reproductive health by exiting violent relationships. Both of these mechanisms drive reductions in IPV.
Policy Brief: Goal Setting and Including Males: Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health for Female Adolescents and Young Women
Coverage: VoxDev
The Shadow Pandemic: COVID-19 and Violence against Adolescent Girls and Boys in LMICs (Sarah Baird, Manisha Shah, Jennifer Seager, and Maureen Murphy)
'It's hard to ask for money for sanitary pads': The COVID-19 Pandemic and Menstrual Hygiene Management among Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia (Maureen Murphy, Rebecca Dutton, Kiya Gezahegne, Nicola Jones, Jennifer Seager, and Sarah Baird)