Child marriage and reproductive health of Indian women

Surya NATH Maiti, Manoj Maharia, Debayan Pakrashi and Abhishek Gautam
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Surya NATH Maiti: Centre for Quantitative Economics and Data Science, BIT Mesra
Manoj Maharia: IITK, Kanpur, India
Debayan Pakrashi: IITK, Kanpur, India
Abhishek Gautam: ICRW, New Delhi

JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, vol. 90, issue 2, 176-201

Abstract: Using detailed data from the third round of the District Level Household Survey of India, this paper examines in detail the effect of child marriage of women on contraceptive usage and access to skilled care during pregnancy and delivery. This paper particularly focuses on sixteen different outcome variables categorized under four broad sub-groups; namely, family planning and contraceptive usage, birth history, utilization of antenatal care; and finally, natal and postnatal care. The overall results presented in the paper suggest that women who marry early, i.e. before they reach the legal age of marriage are more likely to have experienced miscarriage, give birth before they turn 18 and lose children. They also lack current contraception usage and are less likely to access public health facilities during both pregnancy and childbirth. These results, however, vary widely based on the state of residence and age of the women in question.

Keywords: Child marriage; Family planning; Reproductive health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 J10 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-05-13
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