Early Marriage, Age of Menarche, and Female Schooling Attainment in Bangladesh

Field, Erica; Ambrus, Attila

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“…Finally, these results suggest that targeting job placement programs to young, unmarried women outside the labor force could be particularly beneficial. These women are most likely to be willing to work, and previous research has highlighted that connecting young women with jobs can delay marriage and childbearing (Jensen 2012, Heath andMobarak 2014), an outcome that may in turn boost women's socioeconomic status and position within the household (Jensen andThornton 2003, Field andAmbrus 2008). Our analysis has pointed to important evidence gaps and policy entry points.…”

Section: Latent Labor Supply and Search Frictionsmentioning

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Female Labor Force Participation in Asia: Indonesia Country Study

Schaner

Das

2016

SSRN Journal

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This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have increased their labor force participation in recent years, largely through wage employment, while younger women in rural areas have reduced their labor force participation, largely by opting out of informal, unpaid employment. We find evidence that wage jobs are more desirable than other types of work and that many women exit wage work due to family and childcare constraints. We outline a research-policy evaluation of female-centered vocational training and job placement services, which may be effective tools to increase FLFP. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) or its Board of Governors or the governments they represent.ADB does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this publication and accepts no responsibility for any consequence of their use.By making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area, or by using the term "country" in this document, ADB does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. Note: In this publication, "$" refers to US dollars.The ADB Economics Working Paper Series is a forum for stimulating discussion and eliciting feedback on ongoing and recently completed research and policy studies undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) staff, consultants, or resource persons. The series deals with key economic and development problems, particularly those facing the Asia and Pacific region; as well as conceptual, analytical, or methodological issues relating to project/program economic analysis, and statistical data and measurement. The series aims to enhance the knowledge on Asia's development and policy challenges; strengthen analytical rigor and quality of ADB's country partnership strategies, and its subregional and country operations; and improve the quality and availability of statistical data and development indicators for monitoring development effectiveness.The ADB Economics Working Paper Series is a quick-disseminating, informal publication whose titles could subsequently be revised for publication as articles in professional journals or chapters in books. The series is maintained by the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. CONTENTS TABLES AND FIGURES ivABSTRACT v EXECUTIVE SUMMARY vi

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Section: Latent Labor Supply and Search Frictionsmentioning

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Female Labor Force Participation in Asia: Indonesia Country Study

Schaner

Das

2016

SSRN Journal

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“…11 In addition, a few more years outside of marriage can increase the likelihood of these young girls to stay in education 12,13 and, relatedly, their degree of health literacy. 14 The aim of the paper is twofold.…”

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The Effect of Early Marriage Timing on Women's and Children's Health in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southwest Asia

Delprato

Akyeampong

2017

Annals of Global Health

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“…Child marriages are associated with reduced educational attainment, lower use of preventive health care services, lower bargaining power within the household, physical abuse and domestic violence (Jensen and Thornton, 2003;Field and Ambrus, 2008). Therefore, the eradication of child marriages is now a priority in a 1 For comparison, adolescent fertility rates in 2010 were equal to 26 in United Kingdom, 5 in Italy and 3 in Switzerland (The World Bank, 2014).…”

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Selling daughters: age of marriage, income shocks and the bride price tradition

Corno¹,

Voena²

2016

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When markets are incomplete, cultural norms may play an important role in shaping economic behavior. In this paper, we explore whether income shocks increase the probability of child marriages in societies that engage in bride price payments -transfers from the groom to the bride's parents at marriage. We develop a simple model in which households are exposed to income volatility and have no access to credit markets. If a daughter marries, the household obtains a bride price and has fewer members to support. In this framework, girls have a higher probability of marrying early when their parents have higher marginal utility of consumption because of adverse income shocks. We test the prediction of the model by exploiting variation in rainfall shocks over a woman's life cycle, using a survey dataset from rural Tanzania. We find that adverse shocks during teenage years increase the probability of early marriages and early fertility among women.⇤ We thank Jérôme Adda, Marcella Alsan, Natalie Bau, Caterina Gennaioli, Veronica Guerrieri, Eliana La Ferrara, Costas Meghir, Claudia Olivetti, Michèle Tertilt, Marcos Vera-Hernandez and participants at the workshops at COSME, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum, SED meetings,"Families and the Macroeconomy" in Mannheim, EDePo, and AEA meetings, and at seminars at Stockholm School of Economics, Bocconi and Queen Mary for helpful comments. We are grateful to Helene Bie Lilleør and Sofya Krutikova for useful discussion on the Kagera Health Development Survey and to Kalle Hirvonen for the clarification regarding weather data. Simone Lenzu and Jorge Rodriguez provided outstanding research assistance. This research was partly funded by a Research Grant from the Social Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.† Queen Mary, University of London and IFS. Email: l.corno@qmul.ac.uk ‡ The University of Chicago and NBER. Email: avoena@uchicago.edu. 1The relationship is stronger in villages where bride price payments are typically higher. We use these empirical results to estimate the parameters of our model and isolate the role of the bride price custom for consumption smoothing. In counterfactual exercises, we show that parents heavily rely on child marriages and bride price payments to smooth consumption. Without credit markets, bans on these practices are costly for a daughter's parents. However, ensuring access to credit limits parents' cost, making bans more likely to succeed.

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Early Marriage, Age of Menarche, and Female Schooling Attainment in Bangladesh

Cited by 403 publications

References 71 publications

Female Labor Force Participation in Asia: Indonesia Country Study

Female Labor Force Participation in Asia: Indonesia Country Study

The Effect of Early Marriage Timing on Women's and Children's Health in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southwest Asia

Selling daughters: age of marriage, income shocks and the bride price tradition

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