TY - JOUR
T1 - Early marriage and maternal health care utilisation
T2 - evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
AU - Li, Chuhui
AU - Cheng, Wenli
AU - Shi, Hui
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - We use the recursive bivariate probit (RBVP) model to estimate the effects of early marriage on the utilisation of maternal health services in five sub-Saharan countries: Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Chad. Based on recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), we find that a woman who married before age 15 was 17 percentage points less likely to use prenatal services; and marrying before age 16 reduced that likelihood by 9.6 percentage points. We have not found any statistically significant reduction in maternal health care utilisation for women who married at age 17 or older.
AB - We use the recursive bivariate probit (RBVP) model to estimate the effects of early marriage on the utilisation of maternal health services in five sub-Saharan countries: Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Chad. Based on recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), we find that a woman who married before age 15 was 17 percentage points less likely to use prenatal services; and marrying before age 16 reduced that likelihood by 9.6 percentage points. We have not found any statistically significant reduction in maternal health care utilisation for women who married at age 17 or older.
KW - Early marriage
KW - Maternal health care utilisation
KW - Recursive bivariate probit model
KW - Sub-Saharan Africa
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85114126737&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101054
DO - 10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101054
M3 - Article
C2 - 34482118
AN - SCOPUS:85114126737
VL - 43
JO - Economics and Human Biology
JF - Economics and Human Biology
SN - 1570-677X
M1 - 101054
ER -