- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among …

We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education … model where educational and marriage decisions are endogenous. Two key assumptions are made: marriage requires a fixed cost … consistent with our empirical result that exogenous delays in marriage age caused by minimum age laws decreased the educational …

underachieving; by considering variation in the impact of marriage timing by education and by stage of the life course; and by …"Underachieving" fertility desires is more common among women with higher levels of education and those who delay the … first marriage beyond the mid-twenties. However, the relationship between these patterns, in particular the degree to which …