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Shahana Nazneen
Shahana Nazneen has technical expertise in the areas of adolescent health and development including empowerment, nutrition, and health system strengthening. She worked with BRAC, Save the Children, Innovation for Poverty Action, and UNICEF during most of her 20-year plus work tenure. She was trained as Medical Doctor in Bangladesh and also in Public Health from Sweden. She has conducted a number of qualitative evaluations of health programmes and has been involved with this girls’ empowerment research since 2006.
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A signal to end child marriage: Evidence from Bangladesh
Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. Based on a field study in Bangladesh, this article seeks to experimentally evaluate the impact of a financial incentive to delay marriage alongside a girls’ empowerment programme. While girls eligible for two years of the incentive are 19% less likely to marry underage, the empowerment programme failed to decrease adolescent marriage.
