consanguineous marriage and political instability in accordance with human capital investments and economic development. In the study … grouped countries according to their consanguineous marriage rates. Empirical results show that, the group of developed … steady growth rates. On the other hand, the countries practicing high consanguineous marriage rates are less immune to …

Global attention to ending child marriage and its socio-economic consequences is gaining momentum. Ending child … marriage is not only critical from a development perspective but it also has important economic implications. This paper is the … first to quantify the relationship between child marriage and economic growth. Applying a simultaneous equations model, the …

At the individual level, we test the adjustment of the female age at marriage (FAM) to the economic conditions that the … supporters of the “European Marriage Pattern” assume. For a typical French village, we collect exhaustive data on families and … marriage contracts as well as accurate measurements of economic conditions. After control for wealth, stem household and social …

unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this … Black Death did not have to remain unmarried, so improved pastoral opportunities did not necessitate later marriage. There … is no consensus that late female marriage emerged after the Black Death. Furthermore, the relationship between …

-dimensional genome that determines their cognitive and physical characteristics. Young adults optimally search for a marriage partner … that institutional factors significantly impact economic performance by affecting marriage, family size, and the …

This paper scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. A …