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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-06-01
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| Series: | SSM: Population Health |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321000860 |