these civil law reforms on child marriage rates, teenage birth rates and school attendance using a difference …-in-difference methodology. The results show that states adopting minimum marriageable age laws exhibited a 37% decrease in child marriage rates … novel theory hypothesizing that adolescent girls used pregnancy as an alternative commitment device in place of marriage …

Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. … for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with …

of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for … Muslim women. The policy leads to a consistent drop in the probability of marriage and cumulative births for Muslim women …

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …

The practice of early marriage for women is prevalent in developing countries around the world today, and is believed … model of the marriage market to explain how the practice may be sustained in the absence of any intrinsic preference for … young brides. We assume there is a desirable female attribute, relevant for the gains from marriage, that is only noisily …

In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and … 80 percent of them were married or cohabiting. Early marriage/cohabitation is indeed intrinsically related to early …