Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among females 12 to 25 years of age in Madagascar, explicitly...

Low female schooling attainment, early marriage, and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing countries. This paper jointly estimates the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age, and age of first birth among females 12 to 25 years of age in Madagascar,...

Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among females 12 to 25 years of age in Madagascar, explicitly...

Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among females 12 to 25 years of age in Madagascar, explicitly...

A new approach to evaluating the level of effective literacy in a region or country takes into account the externality within a household of a literate person. Basu and Foster present a new approach to evaluating the level of effective literacy in a region or country, one that takes into account...