reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women … autonomy. Women who are exposed to the reform are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are … East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates …

presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …

whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … treatment effects) and a large set of model specifications, and find significant evidence supporting the role of early marriage … in perpetuating disproportionate preference for boys. Women who married before turning 18 not only state a greater desire …

between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …

the handover, HK women had lower marriage, higher divorce and higher emigration rates. These outcomes are predicted by our … China and HK, marriages of HK men with Mainland women outnumbered those of HK women with mainland men sevenfold. Following … matching model and contradict the hypothesis that cross-boundary marriages were driven by rising education of HK women …

early-marrying women over a span of three decades. We find that the practice of child marriage has become much less … marriage is increasingly concentrated among women who are older and less educated and those belonging to poor, rural households …Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences …

– 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 …

Muslim women. The policy leads to a consistent drop in the probability of marriage and cumulative births for Muslim women … of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data …

– 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 …

address the potential endogeneity between bride price payments and fertility decisions. As possible transmission channels, we … find that poor women and men with low levels of education are the most negatively affected by the tradition of bride price … women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned …