This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … of marriage by age 16 is reduced by 44 percent and the probability of giving birth by age 17 falls by 36 percent. The …

decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …) or to promote marriage and fertility. …

We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of …

the host country. With regard to marriage we focus on the determinants of intermarriage, the stability of these unions …

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … marriage and marital instability without holding constant the couple's characteristics at marriage is negative up to the late … is strong enough to cancel out the poor match effect. -- divorce ; marriage dissolution ; marital instability ; marriage …

potential explanations for the underlying link. Using individual data on female marital histories in a duration analysis … a hypothesis of "on-the-marriage" search. The results are most supportive of the search interpretation. No strong …

negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of … drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women's employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much … marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …