Early Marriage and Education Transitions of Female Youth: The Case of Indonesia

Christos Sakellariou

No 1304, Economic Growth Centre Working Paper Series from Nanyang Technological University, School of Social Sciences, Economic Growth Centre

Abstract: I explore the association of early marriage of girls in Indonesia with the probability of passing education transitions using a sequential logit model; I first establish that in Indonesia, due to the socio-cultural and religious environment, marriage is the primary reason for exiting school for the majority of girls married before the age of 18 (and a minority of girls married later). I find that girls who married early are associated with extremely low odds of passing education transitions compared to boys, never married girls and girls who marry later; the estimates are even more unfavourable in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity.

Keywords: Early marriage; education transitions; sequential response model; Indonesia. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2013-04
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