Mother’s age at marriage and gender-differential in child schooling: Evidence from Pakistan
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- Sumeet Ashok & Mazhar Mughal & Rashid Javed, 2024. "Mother's Age at Marriage and Gender-Differential in Child Schooling: Evidence from Pakistan," Working Papers hal-04592806, HAL.
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Education outcomes; Early marriage; Intergenerational transmission; Pakistan;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- C26 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
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