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Adult mortality and children's transition into marriage

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  • Beegle, Kathleen
  • Krutikova, Sofya

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Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic outcomes including the timing of marriage. The authors examine marriage outcomes for a sample of children interviewed in Tanzania in the early 1990s and re-interviewed in 2004. They find that while girls who became paternal orphans married at significantly younger ages, orphanhood had little effect on boys. On the other hand, non-parental deaths in the household affect the timing of marriage for boys

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Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Policy Research Working Paper Series with number 4139.

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Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:4139

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Keywords: Population Policies; Youth and Governance; Population&Development; Adolescent Health; Street Children;

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  1. Alderman, Harold & Watkins, Susan Cotts & Kohler, Hans-Peter & Maluccio, John A. & Behrman, Jere R., 2000. "Attrition in longitudinal household survey data," FCND briefs 96, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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  1. Beegle, Kathleen & Filmer, Deon & Stokes, Andrew & Tiererova, Lucia, 2010. "Orphanhood and the Living Arrangements of Children in Sub-Saharan Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 38(12), pages 1727-1746, December.
  2. Thiele, Rainer & Omar Mahmoud, Toman, 2010. "Does AIDS-Related Mortality Reduce Per-Capita Household Income? Evidence from Rural Zambia," Open Access publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy D14-V1, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
  3. Rachel Goldberg & Susan Short, 2012. "“The Luggage that isn’t Theirs is Too Heavy…”: Understandings of Orphan Disadvantage in Lesotho," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer, vol. 31(1), pages 67-83, February.

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