Popular discourse portrays marriage as a source of innumerable public and private benefits, happiness, companionship … access, the exercise of which is an act of autonomy and free will. However, a closer look at marriage’s past reveals a more … complicated portrait. Marriage has been used - and importantly, continues to be used - as state-imposed sexual discipline. Until …

The practice of child marriage is ubiquitous in developing countries, where one in three girls is married before the … age of 18. Although most developing countries have a legal minimum age of marriage, in practice marriage age is determined … and marriage behaviour in a setting with weak law enforcement. We do this by administering a randomised video …

Despite improved access to education and socioeconomic conditions, child marriage remains high in several countries … the effectiveness of an entertainment-education short movie program targeted toward main child marriage actors …, adolescents, and parents to address norms and perceptions regarding the costs and benefits of child marriage. We conducted a …

We elicit adolescent girl's attitudes towards intimate partner violence and child marriage using purposefully collected … intimate partner violence and marriage before age eighteen. Responses to direct survey questions suggest that very few … adolescent girls in the study accept the practise of intimate partner violence or child marriage (5% and 2%). However, our list …

heterosexual couples. We conduct a field experiment during the children's pre-registration period. We create three types of … fictitious families (heterosexual couple, single mother, and single father) and send e-mails to schools in which the family …

or non-divorced) and psychological counseling (administered or not) on the honesty level of kindergarten children. Data … on marital status and psychological counseling was anonymously provided by the kindergarten teachers and children's level … two major results: first, children of divorced parents are less honest than children of non-divorced parents and second …