Concurrent with securing his degree came his marriage and entry upon his career as educator and p66 lecturer.
Marriage index entry for Rafael B. Cruz and Julia Garza.
The "marital module" includes the marriage market (entry and exit from marriage) and the other types of relationships (within marriage, outside of marriage and commercial sex); its time step is the week.
Ultimately, to establish causality data on health behaviour before and during marriage and entry to parenthood is needed.
A disproportionate share of adolescent girls are "missing" from their natal households, due to early transition into adult roles via marriage or entry into sex work [ 26].
In conclusion, despite widespread efforts to improve adolescent girl retention in secondary school and reduce child marriage and entry into sex work at a young age, this is one of the first randomised controlled trials conducted on these issues.
Low caste adolescent girls living in rural northern Karnataka are at increased risk of school drop-out, child marriage, and entry into sex-work, which enhances their vulnerability to HIV, early pregnancy and adverse maternal and child health outcomes.
In the stage of "emerging adulthood," individuals have not yet achieved independence from parents due to increases in the number of years of schooling and delays in reaching other "adult" milestones such as marriage and entry into the formal workforce.
A global review of research and programmes that aim to increase school retention or decrease early marriage and/or entry into sex work found only a few programmes that have been evaluated, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Samata study is, to our knowledge, the first cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the impact of a gender-focused, comprehensive structural intervention on secondary school drop-out, child marriage and entry into sex work in Asia, and one of the first globally.
