on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be … Empowerment ; Principal Component ; Education ; Instrumental Variable …

one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … the introduction of short school years in Germany in 1966-67, which compressed the education phase without affecting the … short school year exposure affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward …

into motherhood and first marriage is based. Individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) are … merged with a rich set of district-level contextual data to estimate first birth and marriage probabilities of western German … the risk of entering first marriage, which we attribute to local nuptiality customs. Variations therein, e.g. regarding …

– transfers from the groom to the bride’s parents at marriage. We develop a simple model in which households are exposed to income …

estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms …