Marriage Formation, Post-Marital Contact with Natal Kin and Autonomy of Women: Evidence from Two Nepali Settings

Niraula, Bhanu B.; Morgan, S. Philip

doi:10.1080/0032472031000149036

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“…While their 'economic autonomy', 'physical autonomy' and 'decision-making autonomy' (using terms from [Jejeebhoy 1995]) are likely to depend to a large extent on community norms and rules and institutional structures, there may also be individual variations determined by individual factors, such as education and each family's interpretation of the cultural proscriptions (see e.g. [Niraula and Morgan 1996]). In other words, her own current position compared to men, and that she expects for the future and for her daughters, are probably determined both by gender attitudes and structures in society and such individual characteristics as her own education.…”

Section: A Brief Review Of Suggested Individual-level Effects Of Educmentioning

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A search for aggregate-level effects of education on fertility, using data from Zimbabwe

Kravdal¹

2000

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Section: A Brief Review Of Suggested Individual-level Effects Of Educmentioning

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A search for aggregate-level effects of education on fertility, using data from Zimbabwe

Kravdal¹

2000

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“…On the other hand, Maoist insurgents are reported to have opposed early marriage and even tried to abolish dowry (Hart, 2001;Manchanda, 2004;Aguirre and Pietropaoli, 2008), and Maoist recruitment targeted girls under 18, which may have contributed to increase age at marriage. Age at marriage matters insofar as women who marry younger are more likely to have an inferior position in the couple (Niraula and Morgan, 1996). Marriage practices largely condition the future life of the spouses, especially so for women, and so the impact of civil conflict on marriage is of major importance for the human capital accumulation, fertility, and long-term wellbeing of women.…”

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What Did the Maoists Ever Do for Us? Education and Marriage of Women Exposed to Civil Conflict in Nepal

Valente¹

2011

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Between 1996 and 2006, Nepal experienced violent civil conflict as a consequence of a Maoist insurgency, which many argue also brought about an increase in female empowerment. This paper exploits within and between-district variation in the intensity of violence to estimate the impact of conflict intensity on two key areas of the life of women in Nepal, namely education and marriage. Overall conflict intensity had a small, positive effect on female educational attainment, whereas abductions by Maoists had the reverse effect. Male schooling was not significantly affected by either conflict measure. Conflict intensity and Maoist abductions during school age both increased the probability of early female marriage, but exposure to conflict during marriageable age does not appear to have affected women's long-term marriage probability.

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“…Source: 1996 and 2006 Nepal DHS Sibling Histories. Niraula and Morgan (1996), Sah (2008), and references therein. For India, the measure of dowry is the first principal component of the vector of mother-reported gifts at the time of a typical wedding; results are similar if a leaveone-out district average is used because of endogeneity concerns.…”

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Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition: Evidence from South Asia

Vogl¹

2012

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Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger sisters. Relative to younger brothers, younger sisters increase a girl's marriage risk; relative to younger singleton sisters, younger twin sisters have the same effect. These effects intensify in marriage markets with lower sex ratios or greater parental involvement in marriage arrangements. In contrast, older sisters delay a girl's marriage. Because girls leave school when they marry and face limited earnings opportunities when they reach adulthood, the number of sisters has well-being consequences over the lifecycle. Younger sisters cause earlier school-leaving, lower literacy, a match to a husband with less education and a less-skilled occupation, and (marginally) lower adult economic status. Data from a broader set of countries indicate that these cross-sister pressures on marriage age are common throughout the developing world, although the schooling costs vary by setting.

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Marriage Formation, Post-Marital Contact with Natal Kin and Autonomy of Women: Evidence from Two Nepali Settings

Cited by 63 publications

References 1 publication

A search for aggregate-level effects of education on fertility, using data from Zimbabwe

A search for aggregate-level effects of education on fertility, using data from Zimbabwe

What Did the Maoists Ever Do for Us? Education and Marriage of Women Exposed to Civil Conflict in Nepal

Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition: Evidence from South Asia

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