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Title: | The impact of early marriage on the life satisfaction, education and subjective health of young women in India: A longitudinal analysis |
Authors: | Kanji, S Carmichael, F Darko, C Egyei, R Vasilakos, N |
Keywords: | child/early marriage;India;women’s well-being;subjective health;life satisfaction;education;gender inequality |
Issue Date: | 18-Dec-2023 |
Publisher: | Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) |
Citation: | Kanji, S. et al. (2024) 'The impact of early marriage on the life satisfaction, education and subjective health of young women in India: A longitudinal analysis', Journal of Development Studies, 60 (5), pp. 705 - 723. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2023.2284678. |
Abstract: | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Despite progress in reducing rates of early marriage, it is still a widespread practice in India accounting for 30 per cent of the world’s early marriages. Understanding its impacts is thus of high importance to global gender equality goals. This article examines the impact of early marriage on multi-dimensional aspects of well-being: life satisfaction, subjectively assessed health and educational attainment. Difference-in-differences analysis with propensity score matching examines causal effects using Young Lives Study data. The analysis shows women who married early experience a trajectory of lower life satisfaction which is in evidence before marriage, even at age 12, persisting until the latest survey at age 22. There is no evidence of a causal negative effect of early marriage on life satisfaction; the relationship is more complicated, linked to trajectories of deprivation which commence from a very young age. In contrast, early marriage negatively affects women’s self-reported health and educational attainment by age 22. |
Description: | Data availability statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available in Young Lives https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=7823&type=Data%20catalogue . Supplemental material is available online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2023.2284678#supplemental-material-section . |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27636 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2284678 |
ISSN: | 0022-0388 |
Other Identifiers: | ORCID iD: Shireen Kanji https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3512-2596 ORCID iD: Fiona Carmichael https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7932-2410 ORCID iD: Christian Darko https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1665-2594 ORCID iD: Richmond Egyei https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6443-4869 ORCID iD: Nicholas Vasilakos https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3279-2885 |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Business School Research Papers |
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