INVESTIGADORES
MONTES ROJAS Gabriel Victorio
artículos
Título:
Age at marriage, social norms, and female education in Nepal
Autor/es:
JAFAREY, SAQIB; MAINALI, RAM; MONTES-ROJAS, GABRIEL
Revista:
Review of Development Economics
Editorial:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Referencias:
Año: 2020 vol. 24 p. 878 - 909
ISSN:
1363-6669
Resumen:
We study the impact of age at marriage on female education. We hypothesize that in cultures where women marry young, parents discount the pecuniary benefits of educating girls; the earlier the anticipated age at marriage the greater this discount. We empirically test this effect using household data from Nepal. We control for potential endogeneity of age at marriage by exploiting variations in cultural norms regarding dowry and differences in the average age of female marriage among ethnicities and regions as instrumental variables. The econometric results support the hypothesis that female education is negatively affected by cultural norms that favor early marriage.
