Basic Profile of Child Marriage in Niger
This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Niger. Measures of child marriage are very high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 76.8 percent and it has not declined substantially over time. The share of girls...
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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/2016/06/26489562/basic-profile-child-marriage-niger http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24545 |
| Summary: | This brief has provided a basic profile
of child marriage in Niger. Measures of child marriage are
very high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as
children is 76.8 percent and it has not declined
substantially over time. The share of girls marrying very
early, before the age of 15, has declined more, but not
rapidly either. Other measures of child marriage have
declined only slowly as well over the last 25 years. Child
marriage is associated with lower wealth, lower education
levels, and higher labor force participation. These are
however only correlations, not necessarily causal effects.
Other briefs in this series look at potential causal effects. |
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