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Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia

Garcia-Hombrados, Jorge

Abstract This study assesses the causal effect of child marriage on infant mortality. Using age discontinuities in exposure to a law that raised the legal age of marriage for women in Ethiopia, the study estimates that a 1-year delay in a woman’s age at cohabitation during her teenage years reduces the probability of her first-born child dying during infancy by 3.8 percentage points. This impact is closely linked to the effect of delaying cohabitation on women’s age at first birth.

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Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia

Garcia-Hombrados, Jorge

Abstract This study assesses the causal effect of child marriage on infant mortality. Using age discontinuities in exposure to a law that raised the legal age of marriage for women in Ethiopia, the study estimates that a 1-year delay in a woman’s age at cohabitation during her teenage years reduces the probability of her first-born child dying during infancy by 3.8 percentage points. This impact is closely linked to the effect of delaying cohabitation on women’s age at first birth.

Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia

Garcia-Hombrados, Jorge

Abstract This study assesses the causal effect of child marriage on infant mortality. Using age discontinuities in exposure to a law that raised the legal age of marriage for women in Ethiopia, the study estimates that a 1-year delay in a woman’s age at cohabitation during her teenage years reduces the probability of her first-born child dying during infancy by 3.8 percentage points. This impact is closely linked to the effect of delaying cohabitation on women’s age at first birth.

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Title:

Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia

Contributors:

Garcia-Hombrados, Jorge (author)

Published in:

Journal of Population Economics ; 35

Publication date:

2021

ISSN:

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-021-00873-y

Type of media:

Article (Journal)

Type of material:

Electronic Resource

Language:

English

Keywords:

Bevölkerungsökonomik , Zeitschrift , Online-Ressource , Bevölkerungsökonomie , Statistik , Bevölkerungsstatistik , Bevölkerungstheorie

Classification:

RVK: ELIB39 / ELIB45
Local classification FBW: oek 2608
BKL: 74.80 Demographie / 83.31$jWirtschaftswachstum / 74.80$jDemographie$XGeographie / 83.31 Wirtschaftswachstum

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