Three important interconnected spheres shape women’s lives in Tunisia: marriage, fertility and agency over their lives … and how these choices and patterns have evolved over time. Specifically, the paper examines marriage decisions, such as … whether and at what age women marry and what living arrangements they adopt at marriage. We also investigate the crucial …

Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper … builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as marriage by the median age of marriage) in a multivariate setting …

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 …

Child marriage has lasting negative health, human capital, and welfare consequences. Conflict settings are … characterized by a number of complex changes that can potentially increase the risk of child marriage, but there has been limited … population-based research directly estimating the relationship between conflict and child marriage. Using Demographic and Health …