This paper examines the impact of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake on age at marriage and other assortative matching … document that the earthquake reduced the age at marriage for both men and women and decreased the likelihood of women marrying … highlight how the institution of marriage can induce long-lasting demographic changes after a natural disaster. …

partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …

Marriage is the single most important economic transaction and social transition in the lives of young people. Yet … little is known about the economics of marriage in much of the developing world. This paper examines the economics of … marriage in North Africa, where asymmetric rights in marriage create incentives for extensive up-front bargaining and detailed …

reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect … variation in time and region on schooling, ages at marriage and first birth outcomes with regression discontinuity and … schooling by at least 0.4 years, and delayed age at first marriage and age at first birth by at least 0.4 and 0.3 years …

This project aims to explore the effect of wealth shocks on education and marriage for young women in Pakistan …. Financial shocks are used to estimate the probability of dropping out of education and into marriage. Using the Pakistan Rural … and into marriage are estimated for boys and girls in rural areas. Second, the returns to education in the marriage market …

looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and …, near-universal marriage and childbearing. The other facet of this demographic transformation is nearly unprecedented … discussed. -- fertility ; marriage ; mortality ; transitional economies …

women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …