assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of … drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women's employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much … marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …

the reform are consistent with hypotheses related to the improved financial situation of new mothers after the reform and …

This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … of marriage by age 16 is reduced by 44 percent and the probability of giving birth by age 17 falls by 36 percent. The …

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many … of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This study focuses on Syrian refugee children in Turkey and examines the …

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many … of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This study focuses on Syrian refugee children in Turkey and examines the …

for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …

their young children longer, the conflict between women’s dual roles as full-time worker and full-time mother is reduced …, which may reduce conflicts within the marriage …

of receiving a high school diploma and increases GED receipt. Teenage fatherhood also appears to increase early marriage …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin … recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining …

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage … repealed the odds that teens would become new mothers increased, with a larger increase among young black teens. When we … CLM on older women becoming mothers. To the extent that they reduce teen births CLM laws are socially desirable and worthy …