Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia

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作者：
Jorge Garcia-Hombrados
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[1] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,Department of Economic Analysis: Economic Theory and Economic History
[2] Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,undefined
来源：
Journal of Population Economics | 2022年 / 35卷
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Child marriage; Infant mortality; Ethiopia; Legal age of marriage; I15; J12; J18;
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This study assesses the causal effect of child marriage on infant mortality. Using age discontinuities in exposure to a law that raised the legal age of marriage for women in Ethiopia, the study estimates that a 1-year delay in a woman’s age at cohabitation during her teenage years reduces the probability of her first-born child dying during infancy by 3.8 percentage points. This impact is closely linked to the effect of delaying cohabitation on women’s age at first birth.
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页码：1163 / 1223
页数：60
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