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Sameem Siddiqui
Sameem Siddiqui is an Economist at Wayfair LLC in the Pricing and Profitability team. Sameem received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2020, and his M.Sc. in Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in 2011. His research focussed on various topics in development economics such crime in Mexico, evaluation of public programmes in Pakistan, and the long-term impact of forced displacement in South Asia.
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The impact of displacement on women’s marriage outcomes: Evidence from the partition of India
Women and children are made particularly vulnerable by displacement – the high incidence of gender-based violence and vulnerability to child marriage is well-documented in literature. Using data from Pakistan’s 1973 Housing, Economic, Demographic Characteristics survey, this article examines the impact of displacement during the partition of India (1947-1949) on the outcomes of young women, and finds that adolescent displaced women were more likely to get married at the time of partition, and experienced higher child marriage and fertility rates.
