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Returns to Education in the Marriage Market : Bride Price and School Reform in Egypt / Nelly El-Mallakh, [and three others].
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- El-Mallakh, Nelly, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher.
- Marriage law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- Returns to Education in the Marriage Market
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : World Bank, 2023.
- Summary:
- This paper examines the marriage market returns of female education in Egypt by exploiting a very direct measure of returns: bride price, a significant amount of resources transferred by the groom at the time of marriage. Identification issues are addressed by exploiting a school reform that reduced the number of years required to complete primary education from six to five. The staggered roll-out of the reform generates exogenous sources of variation in female schooling both across and within cells defined by birth years and administrative units. The estimated return to a bride's compulsory education is about 100% for bride price, about 14% for husband's wage at the time of marriage, and about 16% for a measure of husband's permanent income. Further empirical evidence suggests that educational assortative mating could be an important mechanism through which the marriage market returns are taking place.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1596/1813-9450-10288
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