individuals choose marriage because of the gains from joint production ofchild quality as well as the division of labor, the … become less desirable, and consequently a marriage market with more positiveassortative mating will be observed.The increase … in female labor market participation is larger for highly-educatedwomen but the decrease in marriage rates is more …

, this was driven by delayed marriage in low-status families. Disaggregation of my dataset into six periods reveals that this …

This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the timing of marriage and early fertility using the 2003 Turkish … schooling on marriage and early fertility persists beyond the completion of compulsory schooling for an important duration. In … addition, the delay in the timing of first-birth is driven from the delay in the timing of marriage. After a woman is married …

of XVIIIth century with all legal, economic and social connotations involved. The marriage contracts studied fall into a …

We model sex selection and the equilibrium sex ratio, when parents care about their child's marriage prospects. With … intrinsic son preference, selection results in a male-biased sex ratio. This is inefficient, due to a marriage market congestion … to population growth causing an excess supply of women on the marriage market, selection may improve welfare. Empirically …

We model sex selection and the equilibrium sex ratio, when parents care about their child's marriage prospects. With … intrinsic son preference, selection results in a male-biased sex ratio. This is inefficient, due to a marriage market congestion … to population growth causing an excess supply of women on the marriage market, selection may improve welfare. Empirically …