Marcos Delprato|Kwame Akyeampong|Ricardo Sabatés|Jimena Hernández?Fernández
On the impact of early marriage on schooling outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and South West Asia
University of Sussex|University of Sussex|University of Sussex|University of Sussex
paper examines effect age marriage womens schooling outcomes 36 countries subsaharan africa south west asia employ instrumental variable approach account endogeneity early marriage driven socioeconomic cultural factors results show delaying early marriage one year associated increase half year education subsaharan africa nearly one third year education south west asia well lower likelihood dropping secondary school 55 south west asia