In response to the wide-ranging consequences of falling fertility rates, governments across high-income countries are … considering how to increase rates of family formation. Despite significant scientific interest, there remains limited empirical … evidence on how education shapes family choices across the life cycle. We study the effect of educational attainment on family …

whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … with 7.7 - 12.5% higher incidence of fertility discontinuation among women without a son. This son-preferring behaviour is …In this study, we employ pooled data from four rounds of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) to examine …

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … short school year exposure affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward …

relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. … and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus …. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital …

reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women … autonomy. Women who are exposed to the reform are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are … East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates …