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Marriage Age, Fertility Behavior, and Women’s Empowerment in Nigeria

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This study examines the relationship between age at first marriage and women’s fertility behavior and empowerment. Data were extracted from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. The Poisson regression and multinomial logistic regression were applied using Stata version 12. Results show that the incident rate of children ever born for women aged 15 to 19 years is less than the incident rate of children ever born for women aged 14 years or less (incident rate ratios = 0.8177, p

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  • Bola Lukman SOLANKE, 2015. "Marriage Age, Fertility Behavior, and Women’s Empowerment in Nigeria," SAGE Open, , vol. 5(4), pages 21582440156, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:5:y:2015:i:4:p:2158244015617989
    DOI: 10.1177/2158244015617989
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    1. Nathalie Guilbert, 2013. "Early Marriage, Women Empowerment and Child Mortality: Married Too Young To Be a «Good Mother»?," Working Papers DT/2013/05, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
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