one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … short school year exposure affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward …. This is important as not only age at marriage and first birth increases in many countries, but also the duration of the …

proposed, on which the empirical investigation of the relationship between properties of the spatial context and women's entry … 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 …

In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present … robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Earnings analysis of …-couple age difference. We argue and present evidence that women in differently-aged couples have higher earnings not because of …