Biosocial life-course factors associated with women's early marriage in rural India: The prospective longitudinal Pune Maternal Nutrition Study.

Akanksha A Marphatia Jonathan C K Wells Alice M Reid Chittaranjan S Yajnik

Published in: American journal of biological anthropology (2021)

Early marriage reflects "future discounting," where reduced parental investment in daughters' somatic and educational capital from early in her life favors an earlier transition to the life-course stage when reproduction can occur. Interventions initiated in adolescence may occur too late in the life-course to effectively delay women's marriage.

Keyphrases

pregnancy outcomes
physical activity
polycystic ovary syndrome
pregnant women
south africa
gene expression
body mass index
insulin resistance
metabolic syndrome
cross sectional
copy number
cervical cancer screening
birth weight