Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia

García Hombrados, Jorge

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Author

García Hombrados, Jorge

Entity

UAM. Departamento de Análisis Económico, Teoría Económica e Historia Económica

Publisher

Springer

Date

2021-11-06

Citation

Journal of Population Economics 35 (2022): 1163–1223

ISSN

1432-1475

DOI

10.1007/s00148-021-00873-y

Funded by

The research that led to this paper was funded by an ESRC-DTC scholarship and by the European Research Council starting grant 336475 (COSTPOST) to Mikko Myrskyla

Project

info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/336475/ERC//COSTPOST

Editor's Version

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

Subjects

Child marriage; Ethiopia; Infant mortality; Legal age of marriage; Economía

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10486/700733

Rights

Esta obra está bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional.

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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