Basic Profile of Child Marriage in the Dominican Republic
Measures of child marriage are high in the Dominican Republic. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 34.6 percent and it has not decreased substantially over time. The share of girls marrying very early, before the age of 15, has...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/05/26407441/basic-profile-child-marriage-dominican-republic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24386 |
| Summary: | Measures of child marriage are high in
the Dominican Republic. The share of women ages 18-22 who
married as children is 34.6 percent and it has not decreased
substantially over time. The share of girls marrying very
early, before the age of 15, has decreased. Child marriage
is associated with lower wealth, lower education levels, and
lower labor force participation. These are however only
correlations, not necessarily causal effects. In order to
design programs and policies to reduce child marriage,
information is needed on the trend in the practice over
time, where it is most prevalent in a country, and what the
characteristics of girls marrying early are. |
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