Background Girl child marriage is increasingly recognized as a critical barrier to global
public health and gender discrimination. There are still more gaps in the global rate of child …

Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment
opportunities have grown. We experimentally evaluate a financial incentive to delay …

Background The persistently high prevalence of girl-child marriage remains a public health
and developmental concern in Nigeria. Despite global campaign against the practice and …

Historically, son preference has been widely prevalent in South Asia, manifested in the form
of skewed sex ratios, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational …

This study examined the nature and correlates of child marriage in eight villages in climate-
affected coastal Bangladesh using a mixed-methods approach: focus group discussions and …

The persistently high prevalence of girl-child marriage and adolescent motherhood is a
public health concern in Bangladesh. This study investigated the division-wise prevalence …

The research aimed to interpret the perceptions of early marriage, the union of two people in
which one or both are under 18 years of age, through a phenomenological approach. The …

This study assesses the causal effect of child marriage on infant mortality. Using age
discontinuities in exposure to a law that raised the legal age of marriage for women in …

We investigate whether female early marriage is a conduit for the transmission of social
norms, specifically norms relating to gender roles and rights within the household. We …

Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached
an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human Rights for Pragmatists explains …