This paper develops a method to jointly estimate the marriage and employment returns to education using a frictionless … and unaffected by secular trends in education, marriage, and the female labor market. The estimation relies on widely … marriage gain in recent years. The cross-country evidence suggests that female education has a positive employment return …

hypothetical vignettes to elicit average parental preferences over a daughter’s education and age of marriage, and subjective …’s education. However, they believe the probability of receiving a good marriage offer increases strongly with a daughter …’s education but deteriorates quickly with her age on leaving school. …

one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … the introduction of short school years in Germany in 1966-67, which compressed the education phase without affecting the … the birth of the first child mainly for academic-track graduates. This highlights that education policies might not only …