Economic Impacts of Child Marriage: Work, Earnings and Household Welfare Brief

Publication language
English
Pages
8pp
Date published
01 Jun 2017
Type
Factsheets and summaries
Keywords
Children & youth, Gender, Protection, human rights & security
Organisations
World Bank
Link
http://www.costsofchildmarriage.org/publications

The brief summarizes results from an analysis of the impacts of child marriage on women’s work (specifically, labor force participation and type of work held), earnings and productivity and household welfare. It also estimates selected economic costs of these impacts. This brief and selected other publications from the study can be found at: www.costsofchildmarriage.org