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The aim of this study is three-fold: firstly, to address the existing gap in the evidence on incidence, socioeconomic impact, and associated costs of child marriage in Pakistan; secondly, to inform policy debate and legal reform at the governmental level for eradication of child marriage through evidence-based research; and thirdly, to generate a wider socio-political and normative discourse around the issue of child marriage. This study contributes to the gaps in the existing literature on cost of child marriage in Pakistan using a sample that is representative of the national population. This study enables to better assess the costs of child marriage in the Pakistani context, by gathering new information on the direct and indirect cost of child marriage from 26 randomly selected districts in Punjab, Sindh, KP and Baluchistan to give a national picture on the issue.
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The aim of this study is, to address the existing gap in the evidence on incidence, socio-economic impact and associated costs of child marriage in Pakistan, to inform policy debate and legal reform at the governmental level for eradication of child marriage through evidence-based research and to generate a wider socio-political and normative discourse around the issue of child marriage. The information was gathered from 10 randomly districts from Punjab and KP on cost of child marriage.