Premarital Births in Senegal: an Empirical Investigation of its Consequences (Article non disponible)
Mardi | 2013-04-16 B103 Nathalie GUILBERT – Karine MARAZYAN In Senegal, 16% of young mothers have given births out-of-wedlock. In a country, where fecundity is mainly thought inside the marriage institution, this proportion is rather surprising. In this paper, we are interested in testing the existence of a stigmatization on both the mother and the out of wedlock child. To investigate this question, we examine the consequences of premarital births on women’s marital trajectory and on children’s health in Senegal. […]