men and women live for many years and they differ in their fecundity, in their earnings, and in their survival … account for the age distributions of ever and never married men and women, for the probabilities of marrying a younger bride … previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich …

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … twenties, with the curve leveling off thereafter. Women who marry in the late twenties and thirties generally enter …

, again concentrated among low-grade students. Young women who graduated into the recession because of the policy-pilot formed … the use of welfare benefits despite the short-lived impact on labor market outcomes. The results suggest that young women …