statistically significant and strong positive effect on a woman’s age at first marriage; the effect remaining robust in the … of birth are also significantly associated with age at first marriage. …This paper investigates the effect of education on the timing of marriage among Kenyan women and the relative effects …

rates after age 97 for both males and females. Because reports of age seem to be serviceably reliable up to age 100 and … perhaps age 105 in China, we think that this convergence may be mainly due to mortality selection in the heterogeneous Chinese … population. We show that in China, as in developed countries, the rate of increase in mortality with age decelerates at very old …

states entered via the formation and dissolution of cohabitation and marriage and the birth of the first child. [Methods:] We … proportion of never-partnered and childless at age 39 is largest among those with low education, regardless of gender. Further …, at age 39, highly educated women and men are most likely to live in the same union in which they became first …

particular family attributes, believe that development causes change in family life, believe that fertility reductions and age-at-marriage …