Corno, Lucia; Hildebrandt, Nicole; Voena, Alessandra - 2016
Africa, droughts increase the hazard into early marriage, while in India, droughts decrease the hazard. We argue that the …In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i ….e. prior to age 18) among young women in Africa and India. We show that rainfall shocks, a major source of income variation in …