Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life …-Saharan pattern of marriage as “early and universal”. Early and virtually continuous marriage throughout a woman's reproductive years … is also maintained by several related marriage customs including polygyny, levirate marriage, and bride wealth or bride …

of personhood. Embryo adoption raises several questions surrounding the institution of marriage. Due to its untraditional … method of procreation, embryo adoption calls into question the role of procreation within marriage. In Chapter Two, I explore … the nature of the marriage relationship by offering Lisa Cahill’s definition of marriage which involves both a spiritual …

contents insurance, and unearned income). The empirical analysis, based on pooled cross-section data from the UK Family …

inversely related to the economic status of the family, but the measure of economic status used has not always been the same. In …

marriage behavior in determining fertility levels. Coale's parameters of the age pattern of first marriage ao, k and C are … first marriage, marital disruption and remarriage on fertility. Techniques for obtaining detailed information on the process … on fertility are discussed. …

Over the past forty years a tremendous number of women have entered the labormarket, removing stay-home motherhood as … marriage market becomes morepositively assorted, low educated men and women are less likely to marry each other.Our empirical … the century. We also show that the marriage market is tiltedtowards better-educated men and women over the period. These …

on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is … techniques. We find no assoication between marriage and wages for women, but for men a large and significant premium exists with … and family characteristics. Overall, there are very few differences in the association between marriage and earnings for …

determines how changes in individual wage rates translate into family earnings changes. The responses of women to changes in … for men that are very small. The own-wage elasticity for women is positive and the cross-wage elasticity for women … suggests a strong negative response of female labor supply to changes in their husband's wages. Family labor supply behavior …

understand the pathway to leadership in family firms that women travel. Based on interviews with an international sample of women … prominent in family businesses, our preliminary results indicate that there are indeed some characteristic journeys that women …The family business literature has thus far not devoted much attention to understanding female vantage points in family …