Conflict and Girl Child Marriage : Global Evidence
Child marriage has lasting negative health, human capital, and welfare consequences. Conflict settings are characterized by a number of complex changes that can potentially increase the risk of child marriage, but there has been limited population-...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099224508032213918/IDU0ea79b47b0ab0b049730a3270150a58640978 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37827 |
| Summary: | Child marriage has lasting negative
health, human capital, and welfare consequences. Conflict
settings are characterized by a number of complex changes
that can potentially increase the risk of child marriage,
but there has been limited population-based research
directly estimating the relationship between conflict and
child marriage. Using Demographic and Health Survey data
from 19 conflict-affected countries, this paper estimates
the relationship between conflict and child marriage. It
identifies the relationship based on variation over space
and time in conflict intensity. The findings are mixed; in
some countries conflict is associated with an increase in
child marriage, in others it is associated with a decrease
in child marriage, and in some cases there is not a
statistically significant relationship. This overall pattern
is robust to a variety of approaches to measuring conflict.
These findings underscore how efforts to reduce child
marriage need to consider conflict as a potential risk
factor, but also one that is likely to interact with local
economic, social, and demographic environments. |
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