A Simple Approach to Measuring the Share of Early Childbirths Likely Due to Child Marriage in Developing Countries

doi:10.1080/07360932.2017.1311799

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A Simple Approach to Measuring the Share of Early Childbirths Likely Due to Child Marriage in Developing Countries

dc.contributor.author	Wodon, Quentin
dc.contributor.author	Onagoruwa, Adenike
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-01T18:39:05Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-01T18:39:05Z
dc.date.issued	2019-07-10
dc.description.abstract	Child marriage has large negative effects on the girls who marry early and their children, as well as communities and societies as a whole. Ending child marriage is a target under the Sustainable Development Goals, but investments to delay the age at first marriage remain limited in countries where child marriage is widespread. As part of a broader argument to make the economic case for ending child marriage, this paper provides a simple approach for measuring the share of early childbirths likely due to child marriage in developing countries. This estimation matters because many of the negative impacts of child marriage on development outcomes for the girls who marry early and their children are through early childbirths – having a child before the age of 18 (for a mother), or being born of a mother younger than 18 (for a child). The estimates provided in this paper suggest that most early childbirths in developing countries are likely due to child marriage.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Forum for Social Economics
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/34407
dc.identifier.issn	0736-0932
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/34407
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	EARLY BIRTH
dc.subject	EARLY PREGNANCY
dc.subject	CHILD MARRIAGE
dc.title	A Simple Approach to Measuring the Share of Early Childbirths Likely Due to Child Marriage in Developing Countries	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.associatedcontent	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07360932.2017.1311799 Journal website (version of record)	en
okr.crossref.title	A Simple Approach to Measuring the Share of Early Childbirths Likely Due to Child Marriage in Developing Countries
okr.date.disclosure	2021-10-02
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.identifier.doi	10.1080/07360932.2017.1311799
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/34407
okr.identifier.report	157808
okr.journal.nbpages	166-79
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.topic	Culture and Development::Ethics & Belief Systems
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Health
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Social Policy
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Reproductive Health
okr.unit	Education Global Practice
okr.volume	49(2)
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