IdEP Seminar "Preferences and Beliefs in the Marriage Market for Young Brides" - Abi Adams
Institute of Economics
Date: 14 November 2019 / 12:15 - 13:15
Room 408, Università della Svizzera italiana, Campus Lugano
Rajasthani women typically leave school early and marry young.
We develop a novel discrete choice methodology using hypothetical vignettes to elicit average parental preferences over a daughter's education and age of marriage, and subjective beliefs about the evolution of her marriage market prospects.
We find parents have a strong preference for delaying a daughter's marriage until eighteen but no further.
Conditional on a marriage match, parents place little intrinsic value on a daughter’s education.
However, they believe the probability of receiving a good marriage offer increases strongly with a daughter's education but deteriorates quickly with her age on leaving school.
Abi Adams
University of Oxford
