This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at … schooling. We find that each additional year of schooling of a woman with average characteristics delays marriage and the age at … first birth by 0.5 and 0.4 years, respectively. Parents' education also reduces the hazard of marriage and age of first …

This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at … schooling. We find that each additional year of schooling of a woman with average characteristics delays marriage and the age at … first birth by 0.5 and 0.4 years, respectively. Parents' education also reduces the hazard of marriage and age of first …

This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at …’s own education in delaying marriage, and that the relationship between her education and the timing of childbearing and of … entering the labor market mainly operates through the influence of schooling decisions on the age at marriage. We show that …