Child marriage: using the Indonesian family life survey to examine the lives of women and men who married at an early age

Abstract An understanding of the experiences men and women who marry before adulthood is important in motivating social change. Using fixed effects estimation (the inclusion geographic at diminishing levels aggregation sister where possible) on panel data from Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), we follow lives a sample 40,800 for up to two decades examine wide range factors associated with child marriage. We both girls boys early, differential experience marrying older versus young boys. Child marriage found be lesser educational attainment, lower earnings less say household decision-making, women. Women are likely have medically-supervised birth their children more die, stunted perform worse cognitive tests. Negative mostly exacerbated when similarly underage men.