Connections between women`s age at marriage and social and economic development

Silvana Maubrigades ()
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Silvana Maubrigades: Programa de Historia Económica y Social, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

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Abstract: The main aim of this chapter is to examine the historical evidence about marriage patterns in Latin America and critically analyze their possible influence on long–term growth. We will examine the question of whether the European Marriage Pattern can be used to help analyze women’s empowerment in Latin America. This paper tries to explain the link between socioeconomic development and age at first marriage and focuses on eight Latin American countries. Age at first marriage could be interpreted as a measure of women’s bargaining power and can be used as an indicator of the degree of freedom they have when they take the decision to marry. We look at the relation between age at first marriage and the urbanization process, educational improvement and the fertility.

Keywords: gender inequality; age at first marriage; development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N36 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2015-07
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