Data and Code for: A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Nina Buchmann, Stanford University; Erica Field, Duke University; Rachel Glennerster, University of Chicago; Shahana Nazneen; Xiao Yu Wang, CRI Foundation

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Project Citation:

Buchmann, Nina, Field, Erica, Glennerster, Rachel, Nazneen, Shahana, and Wang, Xiao Yu. Data and Code for: A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-09-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E192114V1

Project Description

Summary:

Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. We experimentally evaluate a financial incentive to delay marriage alongside a girls' empowerment program in Bangladesh. While girls eligible for two years of incentive are 19% less likely to marry underage, the empowerment program failed to decrease adolescent marriage. We show that these results are consistent with a signaling model in which bride type is imperfectly observed but preferred types (socially conservative girls) have lower returns to delaying marriage. Consistent with our theoretical prediction, we observe substantial spillovers of the incentive on untreated non-preferred types.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Randomized Control Trial; Child Marriage; signaling; financial incentive

JEL Classification:
      C93 Field Experiments
      O10 Economic Development: General
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

Geographic Coverage: Bangladesh

Time Period(s): 2007 – 2016

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