Evaluating the Employment Benefits of Education and Targeted Interventions to Reduce Child Marriage.

Purpose: This study sets out to identify effective interventions to reduce child marriage, estimate their economic benefits achieved through enhanced productivity, and undertake a benefit-cost analysis of the interventions.

Methods: We model the effects of a set of identified child marriage and education interventions for 31 low- and middle-income countries, focusing on the reduction in child marriage rates and increasing secondary school attendance and completions. These lead to higher productivity, which generates increased gross domestic product per capita.

Building the foundations for sustainable development: a case for global investment in the capabilities of adolescents.

Investment in the capabilities of the world's 1·2 billion adolescents is vital to the UN's Sustainable Development Agenda. We examined investments in countries of low income, lower-middle income, and upper-middle income covering the majority of these adolescents globally to derive estimates of investment returns given existing knowledge. The costs and effects of the interventions were estimated by adapting existing models and by extending methods to create new modelling tools.