Social Norms and Aspirations: Age of Marriage and Education in Rural India
Social Norms and Aspirations: Age of Marriage and Education in Rural India
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DOI：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.01.027
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发表时间：
2013-07-01
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Maertens, Annemie
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作者：
Maertens, Annemie
使用我在半干旱印度的三个村庄收集的独特数据集，我分析了教育和社会规范对教育计划中理想结婚年龄的感知回报的作用，即，父母对孩子的期望。我表明，理想的结婚年龄的观念显着约束的教育，父母渴望有他们的女儿，但不是他们的儿子。此外，男孩的愿望对接受高等教育的预期回报很敏感，而女孩则不然。(C)2013爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
Using a unique dataset that I collected in three villages in semi-arid India, I analyze the role of perceived returns to education and social norms regarding the ideal age of marriage in the educational plans, i.e., aspirations, parents have for their children. I show that perceptions of the ideal age of marriage significantly constrain the education that parents aspire to have for their daughters, but not their sons. Furthermore, aspirations are sensitive to the perceived returns to higher education in the case of boys, but not in the case of girls. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.