Basic Profile of Child Marriage in Egypt

This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Egypt. Measures of child marriage are very high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 16.5 percent and it has declined over time. The share of girls marrying very earl...

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Main Authors: Malé, Chata, Wodon, Quentin
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
AGE
MEN
LAW
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/395841467996683755/Basic-profile-of-child-marriage-in-Egypt
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25467
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Summary:This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Egypt. Measures of child marriage are very high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 16.5 percent and it has declined 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.