on partners' earnings. Fertility of women is not affected and evidence for men is mixed, but we find evidence for …

spatial patterns and of the impacts of fertility on longevity. Our results suggest very limited evidence of spatial (state …) variation in these patterns. We do, however, find evidence that the associations between fertility and longevity partially …

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 …

This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability …

Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies …, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and … a marriage that would have been formed even in the absence of a state intervention (average marriage). In this paper, we …

, these results have important implications for marriage rates, fertility, housing markets and financial markets …This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage …. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is …

the handover, HK women had lower marriage, higher divorce and higher emigration rates. These outcomes are predicted by our …

This paper is the first to provide evidence about the relationship between bride price payments and fertility decisions … in the African context. Remarkably, the results show that bride price payments reduce fertility pressure, with a woman … address the potential endogeneity between bride price payments and fertility decisions. As possible transmission channels, we …