The Causal Effect of Early Marriage on Women's Bargaining Power
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.
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dig-okr-10986420122024-08-08T02:41:48Z The Causal Effect of Early Marriage on Women's Bargaining Power Evidence from Bangladesh Tauseef, Salauddin Sufian, Farha Deba EARLY MARRIAGE BARGAINING POWER WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT BANGLADESH GENDER EQUALITY SDG 5 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. 2024-08-06T15:46:20Z 2024-08-06T15:46:20Z 2024-01-09 Journal Article http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099426408022457182/IDU13eb52ffa19278144fc1a46b121849f8a56c2 The World Bank Economic Review 0258-6770 (print) 1564-698X (online) https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42012 English en_US World Bank Economic Review World Bank Economic Review CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank application/pdf text/plain Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank |
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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. |
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