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 …

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 …

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 …

valuing these skills and compensating employees according to their observed productivity. Both men and women exhibit these …

after mar- riage, and about 37% of Pakistani married women give birth to their first child within twelve months of marriage …An aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic that merits attention is its effects on marriage and childbirth. Although the direct … lockdown, such as that imposed in Pakistan from March 14 to May 8 2020, and the closure of marriage halls that lasted till …

the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, with half of men smoke while few women … for children’s marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor - a large number of surplus men in the marriage … demonstrate this pattern. Coping with the marriage market pressure is a more plausible pathway linking the observed skewed sex …

This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride … prevalence of bride price. Compared to women who experienced the same shock but lived in a province where bride price is … infrequent, such women are also more likely to give birth to their first child before 18 and for those who married religiously …

Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the … opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes … when women have babies in their forties. These data regularities align with a significant increase in the risk of having a …