women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to …, and to the marriage and enrollment decisions of their male siblings. Girls exposed to the garment sector delay marriage …

involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the … divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family …

had little effect on the probabilities of entering into marriage and parenthood at a young age. In contrast, both the … marriage and motherhood. …

This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …

explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to … more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …

– both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among …

This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of … woman’s marriage market appear to lead to fewer never married mothers, but more divorced mothers. Higher child support or …

panel data of different measures of fertility and examine the change in divorce laws. Total fertility declined in states … that introduced unilateral divorce, which makes dissolution of marriage easier. Most of this effect is due to a decline of … out-of-wedlock fertility. We suggest an explanation (and provide supportive evidence for it) based upon the effect of …