A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
"...develop a model of the marriage market in which women remain in a child marriage equilibrium because delaying marriage is seen as a signal of low adherence to traditional gender norms, which is undesirable to grooms." This paper investigates marriage behaviour in rural Bangladesh, a setting in which female marriage before or shortly after 18 is
Xiao Yu Wang Rachel Glennerster Shahana Nazneen Nina Buchmann Duke University Field National Bureau Of Economic Research
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