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Female Education and Brideprice: Evidence from Primary Education Reform in Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorNagashima, Masuru
dc.contributor.authorYamauchi, Chikako
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-27T18:32:52Z
dc.date.available2024-03-27T18:32:52Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-27
dc.description.abstractUniversal primary education (UPE) policies have been shown to improve educational attainment and delay marriage and childbearing, particularly among rural girls. This disproportionate improvement in female relative to male education can change the bargaining structure between the wife and the husband. Furthermore, with the expectation of this change, decisions about marriage-market entry, matching, and marital arrangements, such as brideprice, can change. Greater female bargaining power can increase the share of marriages without a brideprice in settings where husbands may demand a refund upon divorce. Using first-hand data on marital transfers and exploiting Uganda’s UPE, which abolished primary school fees in 1997, this study shows that longer UPE exposure is associated positively with female education and negatively with brideprice practice. The results imply that UPE policies can affect women’s marital lives by empowering them in household decisions. The study also discusses the consistency of the results with other potential mechanisms, such as selective marriage-market entry, marital squeeze, and assortative matching.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099542212122362437/IDU0f6ab080c01ba4046c20a3110eb0573426f5b
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41300
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41300
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectUNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
dc.subjectFEMALE EDUCATION
dc.subjectBRIDEPRICE
dc.subjectUGANDA
dc.titleFemale Education and Bridepriceen
dc.title.subtitleEvidence from Primary Education Reform in Ugandaen
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.crossref.titleFemale Education and Brideprice: Evidence from Primary Education Reform in Uganda
okr.date.disclosure2024-03-27
okr.date.lastmodified2023-12-12T00:00:00Zen
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099542212122362437/IDU0f6ab080c01ba4046c20a3110eb0573426f5b
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okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhad020
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41300
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34212926
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okr.identifier.report186392
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okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeAfrica Eastern and Southern (AFE)
okr.region.countryUganda
okr.topicGender::Gender and Education
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Demographics
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economics and Gender
okr.unitOff of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
okr.volume37 (4)
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