of marriage. We finally discuss the impact of late marriages on fertility, and argue that there need not be negative …We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between … perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of …