This episode’s guest is Amal Ahmad, an Assistent Professor at the Development Economics group at Wageningen University. She presents her working paper on the effect of early mother's marriage on child growth in India. The authors explore this causal relationship using age at menarche as an instrumental variable. The conversation discusses the data and methods used, as well as policy implications and their political feasibility in the Indian context. Guest: Amal Ahmad, Assistent Professor, Development Economics group, Wageningen University Hosts: Prithviraj Basu Mallik & Dyllis De Pessemier