The Effect of Weather Variability on Child Marriage in Bangladesh

Authors

Magda Tsaneva, Clark UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Bangladesh has one of the world's highest child marriage rates. It is also one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. This paper studies the effect of climate variability on child marriage using data from five waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys. I find that a higher number of dry months in a given year significantly increases the probability of early marriage. Importantly, precipitation fluctuations only affect rural but not urban populations, suggesting that the main channel through which climate affects early marriage is likely an income channel. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Publication Title

Journal of International Development

Publication Date

11-2020

Volume

32

Issue

8

First Page

1346

Last Page

1359

ISSN

0954-1748

DOI

10.1002/jid.3507

Keywords

Bangladesh, child marriage, weather variability

Repository Citation

Tsaneva, Magda, "The Effect of Weather Variability on Child Marriage in Bangladesh" (2020). Economics. 207.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_economics/207