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spelling okr-10986-254642021-05-25T10:54:37Z Basic Profile of Child Marriage in Ghana Malé, Chata Wodon, Quentin LITERACY KNOWLEDGE NUMBER OF GIRLS AGE OF MARRIAGE CHILDREN EDUCATION POLICIES INVESTMENT POPULATION KNOWLEDGE AGED CHILD HOUSEHOLDS VALUES WOMAN PARTICIPATION SCHOOLING CHILD MARRIAGE AGE LAWS ENROLLMENT MEN FIRST MARRIAGE GROUPS POPULATION LAW LABOR FORCE GIRLS STUDENTS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES INTERVENTIONS PRIMARY EDUCATION FERTILITY MARRIAGE WOMEN PRIMARY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN NUTRITION RESIDENCE EARLY MARRIAGE SECONDARY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT GOALS RURAL GIRLS WILL BULLETIN AGE AT MARRIAGE HEALTH RISKS POLICY OLDER WOMEN INEQUALITY This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Ghana. Measures of child marriage are very high. The share of women aged 18-22 who married as children is 17.2 percent and it has declined substantially over time. The share of girls marrying very early, before the age of 15, has also declined. Other measures of child marriage have declined 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. 2016-11-29T14:44:10Z 2016-11-29T14:44:10Z 2016-03 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/107481468179099453/Basic-profile-of-child-marriage-in-Ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25464 English en_US Health, Nutrition and Population Knowledge Brief; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Ghana
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topic LITERACY
KNOWLEDGE
NUMBER OF GIRLS
AGE OF MARRIAGE
CHILDREN
EDUCATION
POLICIES
INVESTMENT
POPULATION KNOWLEDGE
AGED
CHILD
HOUSEHOLDS
VALUES
WOMAN
PARTICIPATION
SCHOOLING
CHILD MARRIAGE
AGE
LAWS
ENROLLMENT
MEN
FIRST MARRIAGE
GROUPS
POPULATION
LAW
LABOR FORCE
GIRLS
STUDENTS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
INTERVENTIONS
PRIMARY EDUCATION
FERTILITY
MARRIAGE
WOMEN
PRIMARY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN
NUTRITION
RESIDENCE
EARLY MARRIAGE
SECONDARY EDUCATION
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
RURAL GIRLS
WILL
BULLETIN
AGE AT MARRIAGE
HEALTH RISKS
POLICY
OLDER WOMEN
INEQUALITY
spellingShingle LITERACY
KNOWLEDGE
NUMBER OF GIRLS
AGE OF MARRIAGE
CHILDREN
EDUCATION
POLICIES
INVESTMENT
POPULATION KNOWLEDGE
AGED
CHILD
HOUSEHOLDS
VALUES
WOMAN
PARTICIPATION
SCHOOLING
CHILD MARRIAGE
AGE
LAWS
ENROLLMENT
MEN
FIRST MARRIAGE
GROUPS
POPULATION
LAW
LABOR FORCE
GIRLS
STUDENTS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
INTERVENTIONS
PRIMARY EDUCATION
FERTILITY
MARRIAGE
WOMEN
PRIMARY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN
NUTRITION
RESIDENCE
EARLY MARRIAGE
SECONDARY EDUCATION
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
RURAL GIRLS
WILL
BULLETIN
AGE AT MARRIAGE
HEALTH RISKS
POLICY
OLDER WOMEN
INEQUALITY
Malé, Chata
Wodon, Quentin
Basic Profile of Child Marriage in Ghana
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Ghana
relation Health, Nutrition and Population Knowledge Brief;
description This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Ghana. Measures of child marriage are very high. The share of women aged 18-22 who married as children is 17.2 percent and it has declined substantially over time. The share of girls marrying very early, before the age of 15, has also declined. Other measures of child marriage have declined 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.
format Brief
author Malé, Chata
Wodon, Quentin
author_facet Malé, Chata
Wodon, Quentin
author_sort Malé, Chata
title Basic Profile of Child Marriage in Ghana
title_short Basic Profile of Child Marriage in Ghana
title_full Basic Profile of Child Marriage in Ghana
title_fullStr Basic Profile of Child Marriage in Ghana
title_full_unstemmed Basic Profile of Child Marriage in Ghana
title_sort basic profile of child marriage in ghana
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2016
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/107481468179099453/Basic-profile-of-child-marriage-in-Ghana
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