We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …

any significant advantage of legal marriage among young mothers. …

reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect … variation in time and region on schooling, ages at marriage and first birth outcomes with regression discontinuity and … schooling by at least 0.4 years, and delayed age at first marriage and age at first birth by at least 0.4 and 0.3 years …

analysis. In this paper we study the unintended consequences of a public information campaign on water quality on the marriage … campaign. We study the impact of the campaign on marriage patterns in rural Bangladesh. Using a difference-in-difference model …, we analyse the age at marriage, bride price agreed at the time of marriage and find that both of them decreased in …

cluster average of women's exposure to family planning messages via radio, we find that if the decision to use contraceptives … policies towards men's understanding of family planning. …

childhood marriage are largest in more conservative societies (as measured by the Social Institutions and Gender Index …

We study the impact of bride kidnapping, a form of marriage practiced in Central Asia and elsewhere, on infant birth …

We study the impact of bride kidnapping, a peculiar form of marriage practiced in Central Asia, on child birth weight …. The search for a suitable mate in a kidnapped marriage is initiated by the groom, and there is typically non …

One of the theoretical predictions relating to the family size and birth order effect on child capital is resource … household size declined. This paper investigates the child birth order and alternative family structure (i.e household) size …