Trends in child marriage and new evidence on the selective impact of changes in age-at-marriage laws on early marriage
This study adopts a cohort perspective to explore trends in child marriage - defined as the proportion of girls who entered first union before the age of 18 - and the effectiveness of policy changes aimed at curbing child marriage by increasing the minimum legal age of marriage. We adopt a cross-nat...
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Main Authors: | Ewa Batyra (Author), Luca Maria Pesando (Author) |
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2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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