The negative association between education and marriage timing is often explained by an economic independence theory … fits better with a path dependence theory. Specifically, the effect of education on marriage timing, for both women and men …

-representation of women in high-powered professions may reflect a coordination failure in young women?s marriage-timing decisions. Since …. Marriage prospects of high-powered women depend on the marriage-timing decisions of younger women. Under these assumptions, we … show that women?s marriage-timing decisions exhibit strategic complementarities. Coordination failures in women?s marriage-timing …

-representation of women in high-powered professions may reflect a coordination failure in young women's marriage-timing decisions. Since …. Marriage prospects of high-powered women depend on the marriage-timing decisions of younger women. Under these assumptions, we … show that women's marriage-timing decisions exhibit strategic complementarities. Coordination failures in women's marriage-timing …

This paper studies the marriage timing decisions of young men and women in China. The data set is a sample of Chinese …. Exploiting the differences in marriage timing among the couples in our data set, we find empirical results that are largely …