Purpose The study projects the potential impact of COVID-19 on child marriage in the five
countries in which the burden of child marriage is the largest: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia …

This paper investigates the relationship between child marriage and economic incentives in
a setting where the bride price–a transfer from the groom to the bride's parents at marriage …

When markets are incomplete, cultural norms may play an important role in shaping
economic behavior. In this paper, we explore whether the custom of bride price–a transfer …

Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because
parental death is likely to be correlated with other, unobserved factors that affect child well …

Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable
concern about the welfare of surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability …

Much has been written on gender inequality and how it affects fertility and mortality
outcomes as well as economic outcomes. What is not well understood is the role of gender …

There are compelling reasons to believe that orphans–many millions due to the AIDS
epidemic–are more likely to be sexually victimized during childhood. Few studies have …

This paper evaluates effects of community-level women's property and inheritance rights on
women's economic outcomes using a 13 year longitudinal panel from rural Tanzania. In the …

Female orphans are widely cited as being at risk for early marriage, early childbearing, and
risky sexual behavior; however, to date no studies have examined these linkages using …

This article examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age
at first birth, and age at labor market entry for young Senegalese women. We use a multiple …