A note on bride kidnapping and labour supply behaviour of Kyrgyz women
Arabsheibani G.R. Kudebayeva A. Mussurov A.
December 2021Elsevier B.V.
Economic Systems
2021#45Issue 4
Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz womens labour supply elasticities at the extensive margin. We use Heckmans two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that womens labour supply decision is not influenced by their earnings. We also show that there exists a significant gap in employment propensities among ethnic Kyrgyz women in consensual or arranged marriages compared to women in kidnapped-based marriages. This finding suggests that the practice of bride abduction adversely affects womens probability of employment and might have negative consequences on their economic well-being.
Bride kidnapping , Kyrgyzstan , Labour supply , Women
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LSE, University of Roehampton, United Kingdom
IZA, Bonn, Germany
KIMEP University, Kazakhstan
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