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Esther Spindler1, Susie Hoffman2,3, Fred Nalugoda4
1Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract:
Few studies have sought to untangle the influence of social determinants and pregnancy on adolescent marriage declines. Using longitudinal data from 15- to 17-year-old girls in the Rakai Community Cohort Survey, we assessed how education, socio-economic status, orphanhood and pregnancy contributed to trends in adolescent marriage. We examined descriptive trends and logistic regressions of the associations between social determinants and adolescent marriage, and conducted causal mediation analysis to assess the extent that pregnancy mediated the effect of education on marriage. Between 1999-2018, adolescent marriages and pregnancies dropped substantially (24%-6% and 28%-8%). Girls' secondary schooling was strongly associated with lower marriage risk (aOR marriage=0.09; 95%CI=0.07-0.12), accounting for time. Lower pregnancy rates partially explained the effect of secondary schooling on lower adolescent marriage (aOR indirect effect=0.55; 95%CI=0.421-0.721). Findings affirm the importance of education in preventing adolescent marriages but call attention to the role of pregnancies in influencing adolescent marriages.
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