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 …

fertility for individuals from low socioeconomic backgrounds, particularly women. In the marriage market, the reform changed the … characteristics of women's partners without impacting marriage, cohabitation, or divorce rates. Specifically, women were more likely …This paper studies how the type of education pursued at an early age affects family formation. I focus on a French …

exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key … are much more likely to graduate themselves. The marriage market also contributes: Women's chance of getting marriage …In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites …

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 …

strategy to end child marriage and teenage pregnancies. Improving girls' education is also a priority of the government …. Unfortunately, the cultural, economic, and social conditions that have historically contributed to child marriage, early …

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 …

consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women's propensity to marry a first cousin or a blood … are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are less likely to get forced into marriage … East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates …