BACKGROUND Research into the causes of the mid-20-century baby boom has concluded that the main proximate cause of the fertility increase during the 1940s was earlier and more universal marriage in the cohorts born after 1910, and that this association between nuptiality trends and fertility was particularly strong in Sweden. OBJECTIVE However, we do not know whether this was a general trend or...

Purpose Even though researchers have discussed gender stereotype change, only a few studies specifically projected outcomes or consequences. Hence, the main purpose of this study is to examine impact change concerning different outcomes. Design/methodology/approach In achieving purpose, authors searched and reviewed current empirical knowledge on in Scopus EBSCOhost databases from 1970 2020. Th...

Mainstream development actors are increasingly recognising the value of investment in girls and young women yet limited inroads have been made into achieving meaningful change, particularly in areas such as early marriage and pregnancy, maternal mortality, and gender-based violence. It is critical therefore that broader poverty reduction and development frameworks do not simply ‘add girls and s...

While several studies examine the effect of marriage market conditions on post-marital labor supply, few account for the effect of these conditions on pre-marital investment decisions and mate selection. This paper investigates theoretically and empirically how changes in marriage market conditions affect pre-marital investments. I first show how a change in the sex ratio – that is, the ratio o...

BACKGROUND Marriage histories are a valuable data source for investigating nuptiality. While researchers typically acknowledge the problems associated with their use, it is unknown to what extent these problems occur and how marriage analyses are affected. OBJECTIVE This paper seeks to investigate the quality of marriage histories by measuring levels of misreporting, examining the characteris...

This paper, using data from the 2000 Iran Demographic and Health Survey and a range of time-varying district-level contextual information derived from the 1986 and 1996 censuses of Iran, applies a discrete time hazard model to study ethnic differences in women’s transition to first marriage. The model specification accounts for both spatial and temporal changes in the socio-economic context of ...

This study examines the interplay between job stability, earnings, and marital instability. We analyze the sequence of jobs, marriages, divorces, and remarriages among young men and ask: 1) Do job stability, high wages, and the career advancement of young men promote marriage and marital stability? 2) What are the consequences of marriage and marital stability for achieving high levels of job s...