On the impact of early marriage on schooling outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and South West Asia
On the impact of early marriage on schooling outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and South West Asia
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ijedudev.2015.06.001
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发表时间：
2015-09-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Hernandez-Fernandez, Jimena
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作者：
Delprato, Marcos;Akyeampong, Kwame;Hernandez-Fernandez, Jimena
本文研究了撒哈拉以南非洲和西南亚36个国家的结婚年龄对妇女教育成果的影响。我们采用工具变量的方法来解释由社会经济和文化因素驱动的早婚。我们的研究结果表明，在撒哈拉以南非洲，将早婚推迟一年与增加半年的教育有关，在西南亚，将教育增加近三分之一年，以及西南亚中学辍学的可能性降低5.5%。(C)2015爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
This paper examines the effect of age of marriage on women's schooling outcomes for 36 countries from Sub-Saharan Africa and South West Asia. We employ an instrumental variable approach to account for the endogeneity of early marriage driven by socio-economic and cultural factors. Our results show that delaying early marriage by one year is associated with an increase of half a year of education in Sub-Saharan Africa and nearly one third of a year of education in South West Asia as well as a lower likelihood of dropping out from secondary school of 5.5% in South West Asia. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.