is to: 'eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation. In this … ending child marriage. The authors begin by setting out the current context presenting data on child marriage and its impacts … for Development Initiative (ID4D) dataset. The authors turn next to the link between birth registration and child marriage …

strategy to end child marriage and teenage pregnancies. Improving girls' education is also a priority of the government …. Unfortunately, the cultural, economic, and social conditions that have historically contributed to child marriage, early …

This paper documents novel evidence of positive assortative matching in African marriage markets along cognitive and … socio-emotional skills, time and risk preferences, and education, using data from rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and …

The ancient custom of dowry, that is, bride-to-groom marriage payments, remains ubiquitous in many contemporary … 1986-2007. Utilizing variation in firstborn gender and dowry amounts across marriage markets, the paper finds that the … prospect of higher dowry payments at the time of a daughter's marriage leads parents to save more in advance. The higher …

This note provides practical guidance to national governments about key priorities for the education sector following a … major disaster or crisis. It specifies a set of considerations and actions to help ensure that the education sector can: (1 …

paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of …

intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections …

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan … Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns … controlling for selection. In addition, the paper estimates the returns for higher education; for this level, the rate of return …

development. The 2018 WDR-LEARNING to Realize Education's Promise-is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is … right: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social … promote education. The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: First, education's promise: education is a powerful instrument for …