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  1. Income shocks, bride price and child marriage in Turkey
    Published: May 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride-price, still vivid in many regions of the country, may provide incentives for parents to marry their daughter earlier, when faced... more

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    This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride-price, still vivid in many regions of the country, may provide incentives for parents to marry their daughter earlier, when faced with a negative income shock. In addition, marriages precipitated by negative income shocks may present specific features (endogamy, age and education difference between spouses). Weather shocks provide an exogenous source of variation of household income through agricultural production. Data on weather shocks are merged with individual and household level data from the Turkish Demographic and Health Surveys 1998 to 2013. To study the role of payments to the bride's parents, we interact our measure of shocks with a province-level indicator of a high prevalence of bride-price. We find that girls living in provinces with a high practice of bride-price and exposed to a negative income shocks when aged 12-14 have a 28% higher probability to be married before the age of 15 than girls not exposed to shocks. This effect is specific to provinces with a high prevalence of bride price. Compared to women who experienced the same shock but lived in a province where bride price is infrequent, such women are also more likely to give birth to their first child before 18 and for those who married religiously first, the civil ceremony is delayed by 2 months on average. Our results suggest that girl marriage still participates to household strategies aimed at mitigating negative income shocks in contemporary Turkey.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15288
    Subjects: cultural norms; child marriage; bride price; weather shocks; Turkey
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  2. "Reverse policies?" reducing the legal minimum age at marriage increases child marriage among the poorest in Mali
    Published: 4-22-2022
    Publisher:  Population Studies Center, [Philadelphia, PA]

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    Series: Population Center Working Papers (PSC/PARC) / Population Studies Center ; 2022, 89
    Subjects: child marriage; policies and laws; education; SDGs; Mali
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 35 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. Washed away
    the impacts of extreme rainfall on child marriage in Bangladesh
    Published: Nov 2022
    Publisher:  National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

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    Series: GRIPS discussion paper ; 22, 10
    Subjects: Bangladesh; child marriage; extreme rainfall; survival analysis; weather shock
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 51 Seiten), Illustrationen