Can Child Marriage Law Affect Attitudes and Behaviour in the Absence of Strict Enforcement? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
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Keywords
age of marriage; social norms; formal institutions; legal change;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- K36 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Family and Personal Law
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2022-07-18 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2022-07-18 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2022-07-18 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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