Associations between village-level norms on marital age and marital choice outcomes among adolescent wives in rural Niger

• Main Authors: Holly Baker Shakya (Author), Jay Silverman (Author), Kathryn M. Barker (Author), Charlotte Lapsansky (Author), Jennifer Yore (Author), Sani Aliou (Author), Mohamad I. Brooks (Author), Anita Raj (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Social norms, the often unspoken rules that dictate behavior, are increasingly understood to play a role in child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) practices, but are less frequently examined in quantitative research on CEFM. No research on this topic has focused on Niger, despite the country having...