Does more schooling causes a delay in marriage? Using a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law in the UK as … a source of exogenous variation in education, this paper estimates the causal effect of schooling on age at first … marriage. The 1947 reform, which uniquely affected about a half of the relevant population, led to a jump in the average age at …

; first-time home-buyers ; marriage ; income risk …

We study how aggregate economic conditions affect the timing of marriage, and particularly child marriage, in Sub …-Saharan Africa and in India. In both regions, substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with marriage: bride price across Sub …-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in which parents choose when their children …

children of better educated parents. -- Age at entry ; intergenerational transmission of education ; educational mobility …