Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia

García-Hombrados, Jorge

doi:10.1007/s00148-021-00873-y

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“…Becker et al (1977) have laid out theoretical micro-foundations in their seminal work for why an early age at there is abundant advice against marrying younger in the popular press 3 focusing on young adulthood broadly, making the question policy relevant. While this advice is well-justified for teenage marriages for their far more critical negative consequences than divorce, such as adverse physical health, poverty, child mortality and crime (see Jensen & Thornton, 2003, Field & Ambrus, 2008, Garcia-Hombrados, 2017 for lowmiddle income countries, and see Hunt, 2006, Bharadwaj, 2015, and Dahl, 2010 for the USA), we show that it lacks empirical support for young adults beyond teen years.…”

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Age at marriage and marital stability: evidence from China

García-Hombrados

Özcan

2023

Rev Econ Household

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Many studies showed that marrying younger is associated with a higher risk of divorce. We investigate the causal effect of marrying at an earlier age on women’s divorce risk. We exploit the introduction of the 1981 reform in China, which facilitated legal marriage for urban women younger than 25 years old, using the Chinese Census data. We show that the reform generated a kink in the mean age at marriage for women, which we use in a fuzzy regression kink design (RKD) to assess the causal effect of marrying younger on the probability of divorce. First, we confirm in our data the existence of a negative (in fact, a U-shaped) association between age at marriage and divorce, as commonly observed in previous studies from the USA. Then, we show that this association disappears in our analyses based on RKD. This finding suggests that the well-documented association between early marriage and divorce is in fact attributable to unobservable factors driving both marriage timing and the likelihood of divorce. We discuss the implications.

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Age at marriage and marital stability: evidence from China

García-Hombrados

Özcan

2023

Rev Econ Household

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“…As a result, there is abundant advice against marrying younger in the popular press 3 focusing on young adulthood broadly, making the question policy relevant. While this advice is well-justified for teenage marriages for their far more critical negative consequences than divorce, such as adverse physical health, poverty, child mortality and crime (see Jensen and Thornton 2003, Field and Ambrus 2008, Garcia-Hombrados 2017 for low-middle income countries, and see Hunt 2006, Bharadwaj 2015, and Dahl 2010 for the USA), we show that it lacks empirical support for young adults beyond teen years.…”

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Age at marriage and marital stability: evidence from China

García-Hombrados¹,

Özcan²

2022

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“…Additionally, age at first cohabitation with a spouse is negatively associated with pregnancy, motherhood and as well as adverse pregnancy outcomes. Literature has reported controversial findings regarding the association between marriage before 18 years and adverse maternal and child health outcomes such as pregnancy termination, unintended pregnancy, underutilization of maternal health services, female sterilization, stillbirth/miscarriage, infant mortality, child mortality, malnutrition [39][40][41][42][43]. Hospital-based studies have reported that teenage pregnancy itself is 'causally' associated with a poor obstetric outcomes such as perinatal death [44].…”

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Prevalence and correlates of adolescent pregnancy, motherhood and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

Shri

Singh

Dhamnetiya

et al. 2023

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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Pregnancy during adolescence is a major risk factor for adverse pregnancy outcomes. Further, Motherhood during the adolescent period is identified as a major global health burden. Considering the widely known importance of the negative impact of adolescent pregnancy, motherhood at an early age, and adverse pregnancy outcomes, this paper aims to provide insight into correlates of teen pregnancy, adolescent motherhood and adverse pregnancy outcome. This study utilizes the data from UDAYA survey conducted in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The eligible sample size for the study was 4897 married adolescent girls between the ages of 15 and 19 years. Bivariate analysis with a chi-square test of association and Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to fulfill the aim of the study. Our study shows that a major proportion of married adolescents (61%) got pregnant before the age of 20 years and around 42% of all adolescent married women gave birth to a child before reaching the age of 20 years. Adolescents who married before the age of 18 years were 1.79 times more likely to experience pregnancy (OR: 1.79; CI: 1.39–2.30) and 3.21 times more likely to experience motherhood (OR: 3.21; CI: 2.33–4.43). In the present study, women who experienced physical violence were at higher risk for having an adverse pregnancy outcome (OR: 1.41; CI: 1.08–1.84) than those who did not experience physical violence. To conclude, regional and national level efforts focused on improving early marriage, education and empowering women and girls can be beneficial.

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Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia

Cited by 14 publications

References 30 publications

Age at marriage and marital stability: evidence from China

Age at marriage and marital stability: evidence from China

Age at marriage and marital stability: evidence from China

Prevalence and correlates of adolescent pregnancy, motherhood and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

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