extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … their marriage-market return from schooling. Combining these two effects, we explain why women now attain higher schooling …

The last several decades have seen profound changes in the roles of women in the labor market and the family, with both … recurring theme is the 'success penalty', or the disadvantage career success poses to women in the marriage market. In this … marriage for women age 40-44 over the period 1980 through 2000. In 1980, the relationship between education and marriage was …

reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women … autonomy. Women who are exposed to the reform are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are … East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates …

considering how to increase rates of family formation. Despite significant scientific interest, there remains limited empirical … evidence on how education shapes family choices across the life cycle. We study the effect of educational attainment on family … education in Finland. At both margins, admission to further education increases the probability that women form families - i …