Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey

Isabelle Chort (), Rozenn Hotte () and Karine Marazyan ()
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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

No 1718, Working Papers from Economic Research Forum

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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Date: 2024-08-20, Revised 2024-08-20
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