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 …

Most studies of assortative marriage still rely on cross-sectional data and apply log-linear modeling of the … educated men and women at an age when young people start to look for partners and form couples; and (c) women's changing … economic role in dual-earner societies increases the importance of women's education and labor force attachment …