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Schooling, Income and HIV Risk: Preliminary Evidence from Malawi Speaker Info: Sarah Baird is a development economist whose work focuses on issues of health in developing countries, with a particular focus on program evaluation. She finished her Ph.D. in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley in 2007 and is currently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California at San Diego. She has also spent time in the Development Research Group of the World Bank and at the Asian Development Bank. She has worked on issues ranging from deworming in Kenya to infant mortality globally, and is currently working on two field projects, one in Malawi and one in Tanzania. The Malawi project, entitled Schooling Income and HIV Risk, entails giving conditional cash transfers to 13–22 young women (conditional on schooling) and assessing the impact of the program on sexual behavior and other health outcomes. The Tanzania project involves evaluating the impact of a community driven development program targeted at vulnerable groups, including HIV infected households, on a variety of outcomes such as health and consumption.
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