This paper investigates the impact of income shocks and bride price on early marriage in Turkey. The practice of bride … first, the civil ceremony is delayed by 2 months on average. Our results suggest that girl marriage still participates to …

Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among … related outcomes simultaneously. An additional year of schooling resulted in a delay of marriage by 1.5 years. Marrying one …

for other Western countries. Using 1995–2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements …

We first document three stylized facts about marriage and fertility in East Asian societies: They have the highest … marriage rates in the world, but the lowest total fertility; they have the lowest total fertility, but almost all married women … sufficiently boost fertility for highly educated women. On the other hand, the social stigma has negligible effects on marriage and …

In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across US … aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

This paper investigates the effect of a large economic shock on marriage and fertility choices. I exploit the 1990's … for the effect of trade exposure on fertility. There is no evidence of changes in marriage rates across regions exposed to …

This study analyzes the effect of one-child policy on marriage market in China, and focuses on leftover situation …, marriage age, and the age differential between husband and wife. Taking age of 30 as a cut-off point, the one-child policy has … marriage age is positive and significant, no matter for urban, rural residents, or migrants, but the effect is smaller in the …