The impact of early marriage on the life satisfaction, education and subjective health of young women in India: A longitudinal analysis

Kanji, Shireen, Carmichael, Fiona, Darko, Christian K., Egyei, Richmond and Vasilakos, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3279-2885 (2023) 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. ISSN 0022-0388 (In Press)

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Abstract

Despite progress in reducing rates of early marriage, it is still a widespread practice in India accounting for 30% 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 Survey data. The analysis shows women who married early experience a trajectory of lower life satisfaction which is in evidence before marriage, 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.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/gender_equality
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Responsible Business Regulation Group
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	08 Nov 2023 03:35
Last Modified:	13 Nov 2023 18:01
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93599
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