marriage, are consistent with a model in which individuals with more schooling and more upwardly mobile occupations interact …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on … within the context of marriage. Religiosity, another dimension of religion, also affects economic and demographic outcomes …

Economic and sociological theories of marriage have long emphasized the impact of women’s education and employment on …€™s patterns of entry into marriage and cohabitation in Portugal and Spain. In these two Southern European countries, gender equity … effect of female education is consistent with the independence hypothesis, women’s labour force participation encourages …

between men´s and women´s economic activity and transition to first marriage. Our findings support the men´s economic … positive effect on marriage. Over the life course, we find that men who have a continuum of stable employment have the highest … odds of first marriage; while women reduce economic activity in anticipation of or due to marriage. Moreover, marriage is …

differences in women’s transition to first marriage. The model specification accounts for both spatial and temporal changes in … the socio-economic context of transition to marriage. We found ethnic-specific responses on women’s marriage timing to …

This paper investigates the effect of education on the timing of marriage among Kenyan women and the relative effects … of education across generations of women. Data used is drawn from the 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey. The Cox … proportional hazard model and linear regression analysis are used to analyse the data. The results show that education has a …