When:
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT
Where: Online
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
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Economics
(847) 491-8200
Group: Department of Economics: Development Economics Lunch Seminar
Category: Academic
Alison Andrew (UCL, IFS) - "Preferences and Beliefs in the Marriage Market for Young Brides" joint work with Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)
Abstract: Rajasthani women typically leave school early and marry young. We develop a novel discrete choice methodology using hypothetical vignettes to elicit average parental preferences over a daughter's education and age of marriage, and subjective beliefs about the evolution of her marriage market prospects. We find parents have a strong preference for delaying a daughter's marriage until eighteen but no further. Conditional on a marriage match, parents place little intrinsic value on a daughter's education. However, they believe the probability of receiving a good marriage offer increases strongly with a daughter's education but deteriorates quickly with her age on leaving school.