The effect of having children on women’s marital status: Evidence from Vietnam
By: Nguyen, Coung and Tran, Anh
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BookPublisher: The Journal of Development Studies Description: 53(12), Dec, 2017: p.2102-2117.
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The Journal of Development StudiesSummary: In developing societies, women living without a husband face significant social-economic hardship. Previous evidence suggests that teenagers in Kenya are willing to get pregnant in hopes of marrying the father of their children. In this paper, we study the relationship between having children and women’s marriage outcomes more generally. Using the 2009 Vietnam Census data and twins as an instrument, we find that having more children reduces the probability of staying unmarried and divorced. Intriguingly, those with more children are also less likely to report widow status, perhaps suggesting that among widows, children increase the likelihood of getting remarried.- Reproduced
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2016.1269887
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In developing societies, women living without a husband face significant social-economic hardship. Previous evidence suggests that teenagers in Kenya are willing to get pregnant in hopes of marrying the father of their children. In this paper, we study the relationship between having children and women’s marriage outcomes more generally. Using the 2009 Vietnam Census data and twins as an instrument, we find that having more children reduces the probability of staying unmarried and divorced. Intriguingly, those with more children are also less likely to report widow status, perhaps suggesting that among widows, children increase the likelihood of getting remarried.- Reproduced
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2016.1269887
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