TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Arabsheibani, Reza
AU  - Kudebayeva, Alma
AU  - Mussurov, Altay
        TI  - Bride Kidnapping and Labour Supply Behaviour of Married Kyrgyz Women
        PY  - 2021/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14133
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14133
        AB  - Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that women's 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 women's probability of employment and might have negative consequences on their economic well-being.

        KW  - labour supply
KW  - women
KW  - bride kidnapping
KW  - Kyrgyzstan
        ER  -