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 …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

through positive assortative mating and the postponement of marriage and motherhood. …

the medium-term (1991-2001) and long-term (1991-2011) impacts of the 1991 Indian trade liberalization on marriage and … experienced relative increase in marriage rate compared to the districts that experienced smaller tariff cuts. Moreover, tariff … impact of tariff cuts on marriage rate or workforce participation among young for rural areas. In contrast, tariff cuts …

conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …

of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … Muslim women. The policy leads to a consistent drop in the probability of marriage and cumulative births for Muslim women …

one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward the birth of the first child … at marriage and first birth increases in many countries, but also the duration of the education phase. (JEL codes: I26, J …

COVID-19 pandemic on marriage and childbirth in Iran. The results of the empirical investigation using logistic regressions … suggest that the experience of unemployment due to the pandemic is positively associated with marriage during the pandemic and … the experience of losing a close relative or family member is negatively associated with marriage. In addition, concern …

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 …