was instrumental for women's professional advancement, because such access allowed marriage to be postponed. However, by … 1960, married women could get the Pill and thence it is not clear why early marriage would interfere with the pursuit of … state minimum-age marriage laws (EMA), we find that EMA precipitated marriage, delayed fertility within marriage, and …

Does more schooling causes a delay in marriage? Using a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law in the UK as … marriage. The 1947 reform, which uniquely affected about a half of the relevant population, led to a jump in the average age at … first marriage for both genders, with the effect being much more statistically robust for men than women. The regression …

matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples … marriage match quality is low, while, for couples not yet formed, they generate offsetting intra-household transfers and lower …

Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies …, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and … a marriage that would have been formed even in the absence of a state intervention (average marriage). In this paper, we …