2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.06.001
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An economic model of early marriage

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“…The rationale for using the age of menarche as an IV for age of first marriage is as follows. In patriarchal societies, women have traditionally faced strong social pressures to marry from the onset of puberty (Ortner ; Dube ; Wahhaj ). On the other hand, marriage before puberty, while it exists, is increasingly rare in these societies.…”
Section: Empirical Strategymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The rationale for using the age of menarche as an IV for age of first marriage is as follows. In patriarchal societies, women have traditionally faced strong social pressures to marry from the onset of puberty (Ortner ; Dube ; Wahhaj ). On the other hand, marriage before puberty, while it exists, is increasingly rare in these societies.…”
Section: Empirical Strategymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A recent set of studies have used variation in the timing of menarche across women to estimate the impact of early marriage on future outcomes in an instrumental variable framework. The rationale for this approach is that in patriarchal societies, women face strong social pressures to marry from the onset of menarche (Ortner ; Dube ; Wahhaj ); while the timing of menarche—it has been argued—has limited correlation with women's background characteristics that may directly impact on subsequent outcomes. This approach was pioneered by Field and Ambrus (), mentioned above, and subsequently used by Sekhri and Debnath () and Chari et al .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Within each age cohort, however, an increase in age at first marriage by a few years led to an increase in the amount of dowry, with the increase steeper for the younger cohort than the older one. The implications are that dowry culture traditionally penalizes delayed marriage in Bangladesh, in line with the prediction of Wahhaj (2018). They also find, unlike Dalmia and Lawrence (2005) and Anderson (2007), that both the likelihood of dowry payment and that of marrying before age 15 are negatively related to the bride having at least secondary education.…”
Section: Justification Of the Ivsmentioning
confidence: 64%
“…Child or early marriage may also operate by curtailing a girl's emotional and cognitive readiness to negotiate on her own behalf (Dixon-Mueller, 2008), including in family economic decisions and in market work after marriage. Wahhaj (2018) endogenizes age at marriage in an overlapping generations model with multi-period lived men and women. Multi-period lifespans provide women two periods over which to participate in the marriage market, while men participate in it only at the later of the two ages.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
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