The last several decades have seen profound changes in the roles of women in the labor market and the family, with both … recurring theme is the 'success penalty', or the disadvantage career success poses to women in the marriage market. In this … marriage for women age 40-44 over the period 1980 through 2000. In 1980, the relationship between education and marriage was …

extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … their marriage-market return from schooling. Combining these two effects, we explain why women now attain higher schooling …

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 …

considering how to increase rates of family formation. Despite significant scientific interest, there remains limited empirical … evidence on how education shapes family choices across the life cycle. We study the effect of educational attainment on family … education in Finland. At both margins, admission to further education increases the probability that women form families - i …

In an environment where the question of women's empowerment is a burning issue and where inequalities against women in … between marital partners on women's empowerment. Thus, using the latest rounds of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS …) women's file from the four major West African economies including Nigeria (2013), Côte d'Ivoire (2011-12), Ghana (2014) and …