education and spousal education combine to influence self-rated health within marriage. The results highlight the importance of …Education’s benefits for individuals’ health are well documented, but it is unclear whether health benefits also accrue … from the education of others in important social relationships. We assess the extent to which individuals’ own education …

, uneducated sectors of society have coexisted with marriage, although to widely varying degrees from country to country. In recent …

and the other outcomes. Education, wealth, religious affiliation, caste, and geographic region emerge as significant …

formation of the first union by marriage or by cohabitation for ten-year birth cohorts from 1911 to 1981 among several … the formation of the first union by marriage and its replacement by cohabitation in Quebec is typical of French …

world. Demographers have long been interested in marriage patterns, because variations in the timing of marriage and in the … now add new reasons for demographers to pay attention to age at marriage. Most notably, variations can signal profound …

Several decades ago, marriage among women in most of sub-Saharan Africa could reasonably be described as early and near … is a trend toward delays in the onset of marriage, with early marriage becoming less prevalent. This trend is most … notable among the urban and better-educated segments of the population. Rising age at first marriage, in turn, has played an …

differences between neighbors and neighborhoods and their associations with marriage timing. I hypothesize three mechanisms … residential group. I explore three domains in which these mechanisms are likely to operate: education, media consumption, and … attitudes. Results indicate that when neighbors have attitudes favoring later marriage and being single, marriage rates decrease …