partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …

This paper examines the impact of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake on age at marriage and other assortative matching … outcomes. Using the 2004-05 wave of the India Human Development Survey and employing a difference-in-differences strategy, we … document that the earthquake reduced the age at marriage for both men and women and decreased the likelihood of women marrying …

Marriage is the single most important economic transaction and social transition in the lives of young people. Yet … little is known about the economics of marriage in much of the developing world. This paper examines the economics of … marriage in North Africa, where asymmetric rights in marriage create incentives for extensive up-front bargaining and detailed …

This project aims to explore the effect of wealth shocks on education and marriage for young women in Pakistan …. Financial shocks are used to estimate the probability of dropping out of education and into marriage. Using the Pakistan Rural … and into marriage are estimated for boys and girls in rural areas. Second, the returns to education in the marriage market …

Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for … women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …

opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to … in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be … bridge construction induced marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women …

findings are relevant as under-age marriage has negative consequences for the well-being of women in terms of health, education … marriage-that is, marriage before the legal age of marriage of girls. We hypothesize that parents who perceive themselves to … from any sexual violence. However, there would be no similar effect of perceived crime in the locality on the marriage of …

Bride price, which is payment from the groom and/or the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage … for girls and women because it may: incentivize early marriage and lead to higher fertility; promote the view that … larger bride price payment is associated with earlier marriage or with higher fertility. We also find that larger bride price …

reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect … variation in time and region on schooling, ages at marriage and first birth outcomes with regression discontinuity and … schooling by at least 0.4 years, and delayed age at first marriage and age at first birth by at least 0.4 and 0.3 years …