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Preventing child marriage : lessons from World Bank Group gender impact evaluations (English)

This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled preventing child marriage : lessons from World Bank Group (WBG) gender impact evaluations (IEs). Child marriage is closely linked to poverty and girls' educational opportunities. Across 18 of the 20 countries with the highest prevalence of child marriage, girls with no education are up to six times more likely to marry than girls with a secondary education. Girls living...
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Parsons,Jennifer Gail; Mccleary-Sills,Jennifer Diane.

Preventing child marriage : lessons from World Bank Group gender impact evaluations (English). enGender Impact : the World Bank's Gender Impact Evaluation Database Washington, DC : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/224441468147543361

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