certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the …

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … short school year exposure affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects … families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of … childcare is likely to be one of the mechanisms that relaxed restrictions to marriage dissolution. …

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … is correlated with lower educational attainment. In this paper we compare the relationships between family structure and … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries …

We investigate the impact of a compulsory schooling reform on marriage market matching using a regression discontinuity …

regarding a positive or negative effect from education on marital decisions. In this paper the impact of education on marriage … no effect on the probability of marriage dissolution. This finding demonstrates that the relationship between education …-broken marriages, it is not education by itself one of the mechanisms leading to better marriage outcomes. …