Publication: Harming to signal: child marriage vs. public donations in Malawi
Harming to signal: child marriage vs. public donations in Malawi
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Haenni, S., & Lichand, G. (2021). Harming to signal: child marriage vs. public donations in Malawi (No. 348; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).
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In Malawi, only 5% of parents state that the right age for a woman to marry is below 18, but 42% of girls get married before they reach that legal age. We document that social image concerns are likely an important mechanism behind that wedge: where the prevalence of child marriage is high, those who do not marry off their under-age daughters are perceived as less altruistic, reciprocal and trustworthy than those who do. We then randomly assign 412 villages to a public donation drive, through which participants could donate maize to b
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Haenni, S., & Lichand, G. (2021). Harming to signal: child marriage vs. public donations in Malawi (No. 348; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).
