Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200324 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. W19/05
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
Rajasthani women typically leave school early and marry young. We develop a novel discrete choice methodology using hypothetical vignettes to elicit average parental preferences over a daughter's education and age of marriage, and subjective beliefs about the evolution of her marriage market prospects. We find parents have a strong preference for delaying a daughter's marriage until eighteen but no further. Conditional on a marriage match, parents place little intrinsic value on a daughter's education. However, they believe the probability of receiving a good marriage offer increases strongly with a daughter's education but deteriorates quickly with her age on leaving school.
JEL: 
J12
J16
I26
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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