[Done as part of the course ECON F211 Economtric Methods]
This repository contains a replication attempt of the paper - Age at Marriage and Women’s Labour Market Outcomes in India" by Gaurav Dhamija and Punarjit Roychowdhury.
data/— Contains the.rdafiles from IHDS (36151-0003 and 36151-0010).scripts/— Main analysis script (analysis.R).output/— Generated model plots.
To investigate the relationship between age at marriage and women’s labor market outcomes using regression models, replicating the empirical strategy of the paper.
Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) - 2012 The survey was conducted between November 2011 and October 2012 and covers 42152 households located throughout India. The survey covered all the states and union territories of India except Andaman and Nicobar, and Lakshadweep.
For our analysis, we restrict ourselves to the women whose marital age is not less than 5 years and menarcheal age between 9 and 21 years and have valid information on age, height, caste, family attributes like parental education and number of siblings, and place of residence (rural/urban), leaving us with 37655 women.
Reproduced by: Srinath Murali
Original paper by: Gaurav Dhamija, Punarjit Roychowdhury