Early marriage, age of menarche, and female schooling attainment in Bangladesh
Field,E.; Ambrus,A.
Journal of Political Economy 6(5): 881-930
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-3808 DOI: 10.1086/593333Document Number: 198454
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.
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