L’équipe du séminaire BRICS vous souhaite une belle année 2024 / The BRICS seminar team wishes you a happy new year.
La Séance BRICS-EPOG+ du 10/01/2024 de 18h30 à 20h30 fut organisée exceptionnellement à l’Université Paris Cité (campus Paris Rive Gauche), salle 418C à la Halle aux Farines et en ligne en suivant le lien zoom : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/84138222079?pwd=Y3NZUlBQRkRNUzRZaE5xSEFIRkRNdz09
Income shocks, bride price and child marriage in
Turkey
Karine Marazyan
(Full Professor, Université de Rouen – LASTA)
Résumé :
This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. Weather shocks provide an exogenous source of variation of household income through agricultural production. A decrease in rainfall observed over the 9 months period corresponding to the growing season is found to negatively affect both agricultural production and returns for the majority of crops and vegetables. Data on weather shocks are merged with individual and household level data from the Turkish Demographic and Health Surveys 1998 to 2013. The practice of bride-price, still vivid in many regions of the country, may provide incentives for parents to marry their daughter earlier, when faced with a negative income shock. In addition, marriages precipitated by negative income shocks may present specific features (endogamy, age and education difference between spouses). To study the role of payments to the bride’s parents, we interact our measure of shocks with a province-level indicator of a high prevalence of bride-price. We find that girls living in provinces with a high practice of bride-price and exposed to a negative income shocks when aged 12-14 (resp. 12-17) have a 28% (resp. 20%) higher probability to be married before the age of 15 (resp. 18). Such women are also more likely to give birth to their first child before 18 and for those who married religiously first, the civil ceremony is delayed by 2 months on average. Our results suggest that girl marriage still participates to household strategies aimed at mitigating negative income shocks in contemporary Turkey.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Julien Vercueil (16 janvier 2024). January, 10th Session: Karine Mazaryan on child marriage and income shocks. BRICS et économies émergentes. Consulté le 9 novembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/vlkk