education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit …Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … the introduction of short school years in Germany in 1966-67, which compressed the education phase without affecting the …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects … families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of … full-time elementary schools across different municipalities in Mexico. Using administrative data on divorces, we find that …

In this study, we consider the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on family formation and dissolution. We use national … microdata covering all marriages and divorces in Mexico, an event-study design and a difference-in-difference specification. Our … findings indicate that over March through December of 2020, marriage rates declined by 54% and divorce rates by 43%. By the end …

legislation has proved to be an effective tool in modifying family structures in Mexico, so it is important to be aware of the …In 2008, Mexico City was the first entity to approve unilateral divorce in Mexico. Since then, 17 states out of 31 have … legislation on divorce rates in Mexico, given the remarkable growth of divorce rates over the past few decades in the country, but …

East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …

East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …

evidence on how education shapes family choices across the life cycle. We study the effect of educational attainment on family … considering how to increase rates of family formation. Despite significant scientific interest, there remains limited empirical … education in Finland. At both margins, admission to further education increases the probability that women form families - i …