Carmichael, Sarah - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2011
This paper examines age at first marriage for women and spousal age gap as an indicator for female agency from 1950 … effect on age at first marriage and depressing spousal age gap. Urbanisation is significant, with a positive effect on age … age at first marriage and increases spousal age gap but only when family type is not controlled for. The initially strong …