tending to be observed more and more frequently outside the formal framework of marriage. In both cases, the fact that women …

empowerment and child mortality via early marriage, defined as marriage before age 16. There exist three channels through which … early marriage reduces a mother's ability to take good care of her children: the harmful physical consequences of early sex … allows us to isolate the empowerment effect of early marriage. We estimate that it increases the probability that the mother …

simultaneous but opposite influence on fertility. This empirical paper aims to test the concomitance of these effects using the …

that despite the delay of the age of the marriage in Dakar, self-sufficient young single women are still rare. Only 1 % of … given to women’s paid work. Also, in Lomé and not in Dakar, marriage does not mean that the husband is solo liable to take …

marriage, a marital practice still very widespread in West Africa, on child mortality in Senegal. Finally, the third essay … studies the consequences of out-of-wedlock births, a rising phenomenon contrasting with the overall fertility decline observed …

with an empirical example; international comparison shows that lower fertility is associated with smaller sets of timely …