Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage … search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to …'s marriage risk; relative to younger singleton sisters, younger twin sisters have the same effect. These effects intensify in …

provision on two important demographic outcomes—childbearing and marriage. The impact on childbearing is theoretically ambiguous … childbirth. The impact on marriage is also ambiguous, as marriage rates may decrease when young adults have less need for … they are married. Changes in childbearing and marriage can, in turn, lead to changes in the likelihood of filing a tax …

There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non …-marital childbearing has become the norm among young mothers and mothers with low levels of education. One hypothesis is that the declining … hypothesis that an increase in potential earnings of less-educated men would correspondingly lead to an increase in marriage and …

and ethnicity and by education. We then calculate trends and patterns in joint and survivor life expectancy in each census …