To learn more about the long-term consequences of displacement on women, we examine the marriage market outcomes of forcibly displaced women. Using data from 12 representative surveys in 7 countries, we document that women who are adolescents at the time of displacement are more likely to be married. This pattern is robust to choice of comparison group and across countries. We do not find this pattern for displaced adolescent men. We provide additional evidence on this relationship by using unique features of the partition of India in 1947, an event which resulted in large-scale bilateral displacement between India and newly formed Pakistan. Specifically, we use the plausibly exogenous timing and the arbitrary nature of the border drawing to motivate a difference-in-difference design. Using a representative household survey collected in 1973, we find that women who were adolescents when they were displaced by partition were significantly more likely to marry earlier, in line with the descriptive cross country evidence. These women were less likely to continue their education and had more children overall, but do not appear to have married spouses with worse observable characteristics.

为了更多地了解流离失所对妇女的长期影响，我们研究了被迫流离失所妇女的婚姻市场结果。使用来自 7 个国家的 12 项代表性调查的数据，我们记录了流离失所时处于青春期的女性更有可能结婚。这种模式对于选择比较组和跨国家是稳健的。对于流离失所的青少年男性，我们没有发现这种模式。我们通过使用 1947 年印度分裂的独特特征为这种关系提供了额外的证据，这一事件导致印度和新成立的巴基斯坦之间发生大规模的双边流离失所。具体来说，我们使用看似合理的外生时间和边界绘制的任意性来激发差异中的差异设计。使用 1973 年收集的代表性住户调查，我们发现，与描述性的跨国证据一致，因分裂而流离失所的青少年女性更可能更早结婚。这些女性继续接受教育的可能性较小，总体上有更多的孩子，但似乎没有具有更明显特征的已婚配偶。