Purpose The child marriage field lacks a simplified framework that connects an
understanding of the drivers of child marriage for girls to decisions about the design of …

Using government secondary school English language textbooks from Malaysia, Indonesia,
Pakistan and Bangladesh, we conducted a quantitative content analysis in order to identify …

An understanding of the experiences of men and women who marry before adulthood is
important in motivating social change. Using fixed effects estimation (the inclusion of …

This paper contributes to the debate on the Sustainable Development Goals progress by
evaluating the MDGs achievements in South Asia and the policy and institutional challenges …

Child marriage and early childbearing severely impact maternal and child health as well as
long‐term economic outcomes. Given their continued high incidence, analyzing the …

There is increasing interest in the ability of cash transfers to facilitate safe transitions to
adulthood in low‐income settings; however, evidence from scaled‐up government …

The high prevalence of child marriage in many South Asian countries is usually attributed to
poverty, lack of access to education and economic opportunities and gender inequitable …

Commonwealth countries are well-known global hotspots for child marriage. Seven
members–Bangladesh, India, Mozambique, Malawi, Nigeria, South Sudan and Uganda …

Textbooks play a strong part in constructing gender roles and status in society. Thus, the
images, lessons, and stories of gender portrayed in textbooks affect the perception of …

There is growing consensus among researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders that
the practice of female early marriage has adverse consequences for the women who …