In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …

Abstract. If women marry younger than men, increased population growth causes a surplus of women in the marriage market … study if this so-called marriage squeeze has caused a dowry "inflation" in India. Using data from Karnataka it is shown that … the observed shifts in the age distributions and sex ratio of unmarried men and women during the marriage squeeze lead to …

between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …

Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences … for the health and well-being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in … early-marrying women over a span of three decades. We find that the practice of child marriage has become much less …

If women marry younger than men, increased population growth causes a surplus of women in the marriage market. This … observed shifts in the age distributions and sex ratio of unmarried men and women during the marriage squeeze lead to higher …

its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively …At the national level, it has long been observed that a country's average education level is negatively associated with … children and the average education level (the quantity-quality trade-off)? A clear answer to this question will help both …

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa …