We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education … model where educational and marriage decisions are endogenous. Two key assumptions are made: marriage requires a fixed cost … consistent with our empirical result that exogenous delays in marriage age caused by minimum age laws decreased the educational …

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 …. This is important as not only age at marriage and first birth increases in many countries, but also the duration of the …

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage …. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is … afford to be more selective in choosing a mate and therefore will tend to postpone marriage until the most suitable partner …

match and an integral equation of one's optimal opportunity of marriage in life. We also find a series of theoretical … their marital timing decisions. According to the analysis, we propose two Hypotheses and test them with the first marriage … than town individuals, which in turn marry later than countryside people and the timing of first marriage is affected by …

We argue that one of the key channels linking the labor and marriage markets is the decision of when to become a parent …. We develop art equilibrium model of marriage, divorce, and human capital accumulation that allows for differential timing … is causes an increase in fraction of children born to women over age 30, and that raising women wages reduces marriage …

We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in … socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic … gradient becomes steeper over time. We investigate the degree to which it can be explained by occupational income divergence …