Local Crime and Early Marriage: Evidence from India
Local Crime and Early Marriage: Evidence from India
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当地犯罪与早婚：来自印度的证据
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10.1080/00220388.2024.2319069
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2024
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Sarkar S
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本文分析了居住在对妇女犯罪率高的地方是否会影响早婚的可能性，即女孩在法律的结婚年龄之前结婚。使用具有全国代表性的纵向数据集，并解决当地犯罪率的潜在内隐问题，我们发现，当地对妇女的犯罪行为显着增加了女孩早婚的可能性，而对同龄男孩则没有这种影响。我们还发现，性别中立的犯罪（如盗窃和抢劫）对女孩早婚的可能性没有这种影响。此外，我们发现，这种关系只在保守的家庭中的深闺制度的做法，也在印度的北方地区，那里的父权文化和性别规范比南部地区更强。评估不可观察混杂因素的潜在影响的敏感性分析表明，我们的估计不太可能受到遗漏变量偏倚的影响。
This paper analyses whether living in a locality with high crime against women affects the probability of early marriage—that is, marriage before the legal age of marriage of girls. Using a nationally representative longitudinal data set and tackling the potential endogeneity of local crime rates, we find that perceived crime against women in the locality significantly increases the likelihood of early marriage of girls, while there is no such effect on boys of comparable age group. We also find no such effect of gender-neutral crimes (such as theft and robbery) on the likelihood of early marriage of girls. Moreover, we find that the relationship holds only in conservative households where the purdah system is practised, and also in the northern region of India, where patriarchal culture and gender norms are stronger than in the southern region. A sensitivity analysis assessing the potential impact of unobservable confounders suggests that our estimates are unlikely to be affected by omitted variable bias.