these civil law reforms on child marriage rates, teenage birth rates and school attendance using a difference …-in-difference methodology. The results show that states adopting minimum marriageable age laws exhibited a 37% decrease in child marriage rates … novel theory hypothesizing that adolescent girls used pregnancy as an alternative commitment device in place of marriage …

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

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …

The practice of early marriage for women is prevalent in developing countries around the world today, and is believed … model of the marriage market to explain how the practice may be sustained in the absence of any intrinsic preference for … young brides. We assume there is a desirable female attribute, relevant for the gains from marriage, that is only noisily …

In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and … 80 percent of them were married or cohabiting. Early marriage/cohabitation is indeed intrinsically related to early …

children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of … school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the “marriage premium for children” is highest for children of mothers with … at age 25, the marriage premium is monotonically increasing with observed maternal age and education …

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 …