Education Budget Savings from Ending Child Marriage and Early Childbirths : The Case of Niger

Ending child marriage and early childbirths would reduce total fertility rates and population growth especially in countries with a high incidence of child marriage, early childbirths, or both. Savings for public budgets could be large. This article relies on demographic projections and a UNESCO cos...

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Main Author:	Wodon, Quentin
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2018
Subjects:	CHILD MARRIAGE EARLY CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION PUBLIC BUDGET EDUCATION SPENDING PUBLIC SPENDING
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29663

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spelling	okr-10986-296632021-05-25T10:54:36Z Education Budget Savings from Ending Child Marriage and Early Childbirths : The Case of Niger Wodon, Quentin CHILD MARRIAGE EARLY CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION PUBLIC BUDGET EDUCATION SPENDING PUBLIC SPENDING Ending child marriage and early childbirths would reduce total fertility rates and population growth especially in countries with a high incidence of child marriage, early childbirths, or both. Savings for public budgets could be large. This article relies on demographic projections and a UNESCO costing model for the provision of education by governments to estimate savings that could result from ending child marriage and early childbirths for public education budgets. The analysis is conducted for Niger, the country with the highest rate of child marriage in the world. 2018-04-11T20:37:13Z 2018-04-11T20:37:13Z 2018 Journal Article Applied Economics Letters 1350-4851 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29663 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Niger
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description	Ending child marriage and early childbirths would reduce total fertility rates and population growth especially in countries with a high incidence of child marriage, early childbirths, or both. Savings for public budgets could be large. This article relies on demographic projections and a UNESCO costing model for the provision of education by governments to estimate savings that could result from ending child marriage and early childbirths for public education budgets. The analysis is conducted for Niger, the country with the highest rate of child marriage in the world.
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title	Education Budget Savings from Ending Child Marriage and Early Childbirths : The Case of Niger
title_short	Education Budget Savings from Ending Child Marriage and Early Childbirths : The Case of Niger
title_full	Education Budget Savings from Ending Child Marriage and Early Childbirths : The Case of Niger
title_fullStr	Education Budget Savings from Ending Child Marriage and Early Childbirths : The Case of Niger
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Education Budget Savings from Ending Child Marriage and Early Childbirths : The Case of Niger

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