involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility outcomes. I study the implications of the female advantage in … education on family formation through changes in the marriage market. My empirical strategy exploits the gradual implementation …-form relationship between marriage market exposure to the reform and marriage and fertility outcomes. The results show that in marriage …

are also 1.8% more likely to graduate from upper secondary school and have more stable marriage market outcomes as adults …

residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults … particular at the marriage market. There are also non-trivial effects on employment, but a more limited impact on education and … strong impact on the marriage patterns of females. …

This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … of marriage by age 16 is reduced by 44 percent and the probability of giving birth by age 17 falls by 36 percent. The …