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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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
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English
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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
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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 a...
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Early marriage, age of menarche, and female schooling attainment in Bangladesh
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TN_cdi_dipf_primary_846225
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_dipf_primary_846225
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0047-2697,0022-3808
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1537-534X
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10.1086/593333
