Abstract
AbstractThis 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.
Funder
Economic Research Council
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Economics and Econometrics,Demography
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