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Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey

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  • Isabelle Chort

    (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour)

  • Rozenn Hotte

    (IRJI, Université de Tour)

  • Karine Marazyan

    (Université de Rouen Normandie)

Abstract

Early marriage persists in many countries despite legal prohibition. We investigate the role of income shocks and bride price norms in the context of Turkey. We use data from the Turkey Demographic and Health Surveys 1998 to 2018 and exploit rainfall shocks as an exogenous source of variation of household income. To study the role of marital payments, we interact our measures of shocks with a province-level indicator based on past prevalence of bride-price. Our results show that girls exposed to a severe drought during adolescence have a higher probability to be married before 15 if living in provinces with a high prevalence of bride price. We find more arranged and forced marriages after severe shocks in those provinces. Our results suggest that daughter marriage as a response to mitigate negative income shocks is not limited to the poorest countries and still participates to household strategies in Turkey

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  • Isabelle Chort & Rozenn Hotte & Karine Marazyan, 2024. "Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey," Working Papers 1718, Economic Research Forum, revised 20 Aug 2024.
    • Handle: RePEc:erg:wpaper:1718
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    2. Abigail Stocker, 2025. "Understanding Child Marriage: Theory and Evidence for Boys and Girls," Working Papers 175, Economics Department, William & Mary.

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    JEL classification:

    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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