Pattems of entry into first marriage among recent birth cohorts (1952 - 1967) of young adults are examined based upon … timing oftheir entry into marriage. Labor force integration - concluding one's education and entering the labor force - is … interesting developments: the tendency for American men and women to enter marriage early, relative to their West German peers …

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 …

divorce nears 80 percent for those who marry in mid-adolescence, then drops steadily. Delaying marriage until the mid … later. Post-divorce, they and their children tend to endure even greater economic deprivation and instability than do never …Age at marriage has for decades been the strongest and most unequivocal predictor of marital failure. The likelihood of …

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 …