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

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

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

dc.contributor.author	Ambrus, Attila
dc.contributor.author	Field, Erica
dc.date.accessioned	2009-07-28T13:32:19Z
dash.embargo.terms	2009-10-01
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.identifier.citation	Field, Erica, and Attila Ambrus. 2008. Early marriage, age of menarche, and female schooling attainment in Bangladesh. Journal of Political Economy 116(5): 881-930.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0022-3808	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3200264
dc.description.abstract	Using data from rural Bangladesh, we explore the hypothesis that women attain less schooling as a result of social and financial pressure to marry young. We isolate the causal effect of marriage timing using age of menarche as an instrumental variable. Our results indicate that each additional year that marriage is delayed is associated with 0.22 additional year of schooling and 5.6 percent higher literacy. Delayed marriage is also associated with an increase in use of preventive health services. In the context of competitive marriage markets, we use the above results to obtain estimates of the change in equilibrium female education that would arise from introducing age of consent laws.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Economics	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	University of Chicago Press	en
dc.relation.isversionof	http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/593333	en
dash.license	LAA
dc.title	Early Marriage, Age of Menarche, and Female Schooling Attainment in Bangladesh	en
dc.type	Journal Article
dc.description.version	Version of Record
dc.relation.journal	Journal of Political Economy	en
dash.depositing.author	Ambrus, Attila
dc.date.available	2009-10-01T07:31:26Z