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Adult mortality and children’s transition into marriage

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  • Kathleen Beegle

    (World Bank)

  • Sofya Krutikova

    (University of Oxford)

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Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic outcomes including the timing of marriage. This paper examines marriage outcomes for a sample of children interviewed in Tanzania in the early 1990s and re-interviewed in 2004. We find that while girls who became paternal orphans married at significantly younger ages, orphanhood had little effect on boys. On the other hand, non-parental deaths in the household affect the timing of marriage for boys.

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  • Kathleen Beegle & Sofya Krutikova, 2008. "Adult mortality and children’s transition into marriage," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 19(42), pages 1551-1574.
    • Handle: RePEc:dem:demres:v:19:y:2008:i:42
    DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2008.19.42
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    Keywords

    HIV/AIDS; adult mortality; marriage; orphans;
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    JEL classification:

    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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