The Causal Effect of Early Marriage on Women's Bargaining Power: Evidence from Bangladesh

doi:10.1093/wber/lhad046

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The Causal Effect of Early Marriage on Women's Bargaining Power: Evidence from Bangladesh

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dc.contributor.author	Tauseef, Salauddin
dc.contributor.author	Sufian, Farha Deba
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-06T15:46:20Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-06T15:46:20Z
dc.date.issued	2024-01-09
dc.description.abstract	Early marriage restrains women’s agency and bargaining strength in post marital households, impairing their ability to make meaningful contributions to household decision making. This paper employs a comprehensive measure of women’s empowerment in the domestic and productive spheres, and isolates the causal effect of age at marriage, instrumented by age at menarche, on their bargaining strength, using nationally representative data from Bangladesh. Results suggest that delayed marriages result in significantly higher empowerment scores and probability of being empowered for women, because of higher likelihood in achieving adequacy in their autonomy in agricultural production, control over income, ownership of assets and rights in those assets, and ability to speak in public. Favorable impacts of delayed marriage are also found on women’s freedom of mobility, fertility choices, and their ability to decide on household expenses and investments, with the impacts likely coming via improvements in education and labor market outcomes when women married later.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099426408022457182/IDU13eb52ffa19278144fc1a46b121849f8a56c2
dc.identifier.citation	The World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1093/wber/lhad046
dc.identifier.issn	0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn	1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42012
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	EARLY MARRIAGE
dc.subject	BARGAINING POWER
dc.subject	WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
dc.subject	BANGLADESH
dc.subject	GENDER EQUALITY
dc.subject	SDG 5
dc.title	The Causal Effect of Early Marriage on Women's Bargaining Power	en
dc.title.subtitle	Evidence from Bangladesh	en
dc.type	Journal Article
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okr.date.disclosure	2024-08-06
okr.date.lastmodified	2024-08-02T00:00:00Z	en
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okr.doctype	Publications & Research,Publications
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okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.region.country	Bangladesh
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Economics
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Social Development
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Social Policy
okr.unit	DECVP - Office of Sr. Vice President Development
okr.volume	38 (3)
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