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POPULATION STUDIES-A JOURNAL OF DEMOGRAPHY
卷 69, 期 2, 页码 219-236出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2015.1053513
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marriage; Madagascar; joint estimation; education; fertility
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- IZA/DFID GLM \ LIC Program [GA-C1-RA4-067]
- UK Department for International Development (DFID)
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD)
- Agence Inter-etablissements de Recherche pour le Developpement (AIRD)
The low school attainment, early marriage, and low age at first birth of females are major policy concerns in less developed countries. This study jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age, and age at first birth among females aged 12-25 in Madagascar, explicitly accounting for the endogeneities that arose from modelling these related outcomes simultaneously. An additional year of schooling results in a delay to marriage of 1.5 years and marrying 1 year later delays age at first birth by 0.5 years. Parents' education and wealth also have important effects on schooling, marriage, and age at first birth, with a woman's first birth being delayed by 0.75 years if her mother had 4 additional years of schooling. Overall, our results provide rigorous evidence for the critical role of education-both individual women's own and that of their parents-in delaying the marriage and fertility of young women.
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