nationally representative sample of young married respondents in Egypt. Using a variety of estimation techniques, the results … marriage characteristics that are associated with inter-spousal communication. The paper presents first empirical evidence … critical role in marriage as it helps maintain quality relationship between spouses and directly contributes to marital …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

prospects actually discourages family formation or for how long the effect might persist. In addition, recessions can affect the … divorce rate. Therefore, understanding the relationship between labor market conditions and family formation can provide …

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

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 …

more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in … household production. Unobserved self-selection plays a less important role. -- Fertility ; marriage ; cohabitation ; switching …

Abstract. If women marry younger than men, increased population growth causes a surplus of women in the marriage market … study if this so-called marriage squeeze has caused a dowry "inflation" in India. Using data from Karnataka it is shown that … the observed shifts in the age distributions and sex ratio of unmarried men and women during the marriage squeeze lead to …