On the impact of early marriage on schooling outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa and South West Asia

By Marcos Delprato, K. Akyeampong, R. Sabates, J. Hernández-Fernández. 2015

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This paper examines the effect of age of marriage on women's schooling outcomes for 36 countries from Sub-Saharan Africa and South West Asia. We employ an instrumental variable approach to account for the endogeneity of early marriage driven by socio-economic and cultural factors. Our results show that delaying early marriage by one year is associated with an increase of half a year of education in Sub-Saharan Africa and nearly one third of a year of education in South West Asia as well as a lower likelihood of dropping out from secondary school of 5.5% in South West Asia.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Safety Research

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1. Kathleen G. Beegle
2. L. Christiaensen
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Citations in the corpus

• Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa (2019, background): “Retarder d’un an le mariage des enfants permet aux filles d’étudier pendant une demi-année supplémentaire (Delprato et al., 2015).”