new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and firstbirth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …-birth. Finally, we find that the education policy was more effective in reducing early marriage than a change in the Civil Code aimed …

new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and firstbirth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …-birth. Finally, we find that the education policy was more effective in reducing early marriage than a change in the Civil Code aimed …

formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility outcomes. I study the implications of the female advantage in … education on family formation through changes in the marriage market. My empirical strategy exploits the gradual implementation …-form relationship between marriage market exposure to the reform and marriage and fertility outcomes. The results show that in marriage …

of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data …Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …

of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data …Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …

attractive as potential partners. The positive effects on female fertility may be attributed to education improving the …In response to the wide-ranging consequences of falling fertility rates, governments across high-income countries are … evidence on how education shapes family choices across the life cycle. We study the effect of educational attainment on family …

attractive as potential partners. The positive effects on female fertility may be attributed to education improving the …In response to the wide-ranging consequences of falling fertility rates, governments across high-income countries are … evidence on how education shapes family choices across the life cycle. We study the effect of educational attainment on family …

education and marriage. Overall conflict intensity had a small, positive effect on female educational attainment, whereas … intensity and Maoist abductions during school age both increased the probability of early female marriage, but exposure to … conflict during marriageable age does not appear to have affected women’s longterm marriage probability. …

where women have a credible outside option to marriage and have the right to bargain with their future husband over the …

evidence that a shock in fertility has a cost for a family as a whole. Mothers are more likely to live under less stable family … fertility comes from those countries with lower level of development. …