- 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 …

We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education … model where educational and marriage decisions are endogenous. Two key assumptions are made: marriage requires a fixed cost … consistent with our empirical result that exogenous delays in marriage age caused by minimum age laws decreased the educational …

gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key …

East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in … when their proportion rises. Education stabilizes marriage and second marriages are less stable. As the cohort ages …We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the …

importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage … from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. -- immigration ; marriage ; sex ratio imbalance ; international marriages ; cross …

framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital … formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective …

We draw attention to two identification issues with previous studies that utilized tertiary education expansion to … estimate the causal effect of education on fertility: (i) the mis-categorization of women past the usual college-entry age as … instrument for female education. We exploit the tertiary education expansion in Taiwan starting in 1996, with a novel focus on …

families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of … childcare is likely to be one of the mechanisms that relaxed restrictions to marriage dissolution. …