reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women … autonomy. Women who are exposed to the reform are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are … East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates …

exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key … are much more likely to graduate themselves. The marriage market also contributes: Women's chance of getting marriage …In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites …

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … short school year exposure affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward …