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The problem
Intervention: Delaying marriage through longer school retention for girls
Who it was tested with: Women in Bangladesh aged 15-49 and their under-five children.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"Both bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses were employed to analyze the data" examining associations between age at marriage, reproductive health status indicators, and child nutritional outcomes. The design establishes associations rather than causation, demonstrating that delaying marriage correlates with better maternal and child health outcomes in the Bangladesh context.
Cross-sectional design prevents causal inference; data from 2011 may not reflect current conditions; unmeasured confounders may explain associations; reproductive health index construction not detailed in abstract
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