Education and Consanguineous Marriage

Akyol, Pelin; Mocan, Naci

doi:10.1086/723092

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“…Notes 1. The reverse relationship has been studied by Akyol and Mocan (2020), who considered the role of education in reducing the likelihood of women marrying consanguineously. 2.…”

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The Impact of Consanguineous Marriage on Children’s Human Capital in Pakistan

Chaudhry,

Arif

2023

Journal of South Asian Development

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Cousin marriage is an important social institution in many parts of Asia and Africa; yet few studies have looked beyond the health consequences to its role in shaping intrahousehold dynamics. We use a unique survey of households in Pakistan to examine the role of parental consanguinity on education, child work and vaccination, and how those effects differ by gender. We apply ordinary least squares, Tobit, inverse probability weighting with regression adjustment treatment effects and intent-to-treat estimation techniques to a dataset of 1,020 households from 9 districts and control for a rich set of covariates. We model selection into consanguineous marriage using the availability of opposite-gender marriageable cousins. Our results show that the adult children of parents who are first cousins completed fewer years of education and are less likely to have attended school. Educational attainment was curtailed equally for daughters of both marriage arrangements, but consanguineous daughters faced a double burden of consanguinity and gender discrimination. For school-aged children of consanguineous couples, the number of days of school missed is higher in some specifications, but enrolment and educational expenditures are roughly the same as children of parents who are not related or are related more distantly. In contrast, domestic work is somewhat reduced for the offspring of first-cousin parents. Daughters of consanguineous parents are less likely to have received vaccinations, although this effect is weaker in the sample of school-aged children than adult children.

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“…Notes 1. The reverse relationship has been studied by Akyol and Mocan (2020), who considered the role of education in reducing the likelihood of women marrying consanguineously. 2.…”

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The Impact of Consanguineous Marriage on Children’s Human Capital in Pakistan

Chaudhry,

Arif

2023

Journal of South Asian Development

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“…This paper adds to a burgeoning body of literature studying the impact of education on non‐market outcomes. Examples include the effect of education on health (Grossman, 1972; Lleras‐Muney, 2005), fertility (Keats, 2018; Kırdar et al., 2018; Osili & Long, 2008), and preferences and attitudes (Akyol & Mocan, 2023; Cavaille & Marshall, 2019; Cesur & Mocan, 2018; Mocan & Pogorelova, 2017). 4 Within this line of research, the paper is related to a strand of literature that focuses on the influence of parental education on outcomes of their offspring, especially to research investigating the impact of parental education on child mortality in developing countries.…”

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Compulsory education reform and child mortality in Peru

Bui

2023

Health Economics

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Parental education plays an important role in shaping children's educational and health outcomes (Currie, 2009). It has been widely established in the literature that more educated parents tend to have better educated children (Black et al., 2005;Oreopoulos et al., 2006;Plug, 2004). However, the intergenerational effect of parental education, especially maternal education, on child health remains a matter of debate in the empirical research. A growing number of studies exploit various sources of exogenous variation in education to investigate the impact of maternal education on child health. While some studies find that mother's schooling improves child health (

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“…A regression at the province-year level (no of observations = 567) of ln CR 1 on ln CR 2 , where CR 1 is the number of new offenses handled by prosecutors' offices and CR 2 is the number of offenses in court cases yields of a coefficient of 0.33 (p = 0.00) in a model with province fixed effects and year fixed effects. When the model also includes region-by-year dummies, the coefficient is 0.26 (p = 0.00).33 The reform increased the compulsory years of education from 5 years to 8, starting in 1997(Akyol & Mocan, 2023;Cesur & Mocan, 2018;Torun, 2018).…”

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The crime effect of refugees

Akbulut‐Yuksel,

Mocan,

Tumen

et al. 2023

J Policy Anal Manage

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We analyze the impact on crime of millions of refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors’ offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered movement of refugees across provinces over time, we estimate instrumental variables models that address potential endogeneity of the number of refugees and their location and find that an increase in the number of refugees leads to more crime. We estimate that the influx of refugees between 2012 and 2016 generated additional 75,000 to 150,000 crimes per year, although it is not possible to identify the distribution of these crimes between refugees and natives. Additional analyses reveal that a low‐educated native population has a separate, but smaller, effect on crime. Our results underline the need to quickly strengthen the social safety systems, to take actions to dampen the impact on the labor market, and to provide support to the criminal justice system for mitigating the repercussions of massive influx of individuals into a country, and to counter the social and political backlash that typically emerges in the wake of such large‐scale population movements.

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Education and Consanguineous Marriage

Cited by 8 publications

References 166 publications

The Impact of Consanguineous Marriage on Children’s Human Capital in Pakistan

The Impact of Consanguineous Marriage on Children’s Human Capital in Pakistan

Compulsory education reform and child mortality in Peru

The crime effect of refugees

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