It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was …

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 …

previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … into a rushing game in which women are willing to marry older men because delaying marriage is too costly for women. Our …

extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … labor-market return and a marriage-market return because education can affect the intra-marital share of the surplus one can …

impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

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 … reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women …

– 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 …

– 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 …

agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …