dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-07T15:30:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-06-01T22:46:05Z | |
dc.date.created | 2021-03-04T10:25:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Jensenius, Francesca Refsum Carpena, Fenella . Age of Marriage and Women's Political Engagement: Evidence from India. Journal of Politics. 2020 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/86332 | |
dc.description.abstract | Although decades have passed since most women in the democratic world gained the right to vote and run for election, a large gender gap in political participation persists, particularly in developing countries. This short paper considers an important—and previously overlooked—factor limiting the political engagement of many women in the developing world: marriage age. Drawing on nationally representative data from India and instrumenting marriage age with menarche age, we find delaying marriage has substantial positive effects on women’s everyday political participation. A standard deviation increase in marriage age makes a woman 25 percent more likely to attend local council meetings, and 8 percent more likely to discuss politics with her husband. Exploring mechanisms, we show that education and time—rather than employment, mobility, and household decision-making power—appear to be the main channels. These findings underscore the critical role of early marriage in impeding women’s participation in the political sphere. | |
dc.language | EN | |
dc.title | Age of Marriage and Women's Political Engagement: Evidence from India | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.creator.author | Jensenius, Francesca Refsum | |
dc.creator.author | Carpena, Fenella | |
cristin.unitcode | 185,17,8,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for statsvitenskap | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1895540 | |
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Journal of Politics&rft.volume=&rft.spage=&rft.date=2020 | |
dc.identifier.jtitle | Journal of Politics | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 000 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 000 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1086/712141 | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:no-88976 | |
dc.subject.nvi | VDP::Internasjonal politikk: 243 | |
dc.type.document | Tidsskriftartikkel | |
dc.type.peerreviewed | Peer reviewed | |
dc.source.issn | 0022-3816 | |
dc.identifier.fulltext | Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/86332/1/Carpena_Jensenius.pdf | |
dc.type.version | PublishedVersion | |