The causal effect of early marriage on women's bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh
Early marriage restrains women's agency and bargaining strength in postmarital 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...
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2024
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| author | Tauseef, Salauddin Sufian, Farha Deba |
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| description | Early marriage restrains women's agency and bargaining strength in postmarital 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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| spelling | CGSpace1378032025-10-26T12:53:00Z The causal effect of early marriage on women's bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh Tauseef, Salauddin Sufian, Farha Deba marriage bargaining power women's empowerment decision making Early marriage restrains women's agency and bargaining strength in postmarital 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. 2024-08-01 2024-01-16T18:24:05Z 2024-01-16T18:24:05Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137803 en Limited Access Oxford University Press Tauseef, Salauddin; and Sufian, Farha Deba. 2024. The causal effect of early marriage on women's bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh. World Bank Economic Review 38(3): 598–624. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhad046 |
| spellingShingle | marriage bargaining power women's empowerment decision making Tauseef, Salauddin Sufian, Farha Deba The causal effect of early marriage on women's bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title | The causal effect of early marriage on women's bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_full | The causal effect of early marriage on women's bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | The causal effect of early marriage on women's bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | The causal effect of early marriage on women's bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_short | The causal effect of early marriage on women's bargaining power: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_sort | causal effect of early marriage on women s bargaining power evidence from bangladesh |
| topic | marriage bargaining power women's empowerment decision making |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137803 |
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