This article examines data from a study on garment-factory workers in Bangladesh to explore the implications of work for the early socialization of young women. For the first time, large numbers of young Bangladeshi women are being given an alternative to lives in which they move directly from childhood to adulthood through early marriage and childbearing. Employment creates a period of transit...

This paper focuses on preferences for specific characteristics in a potential partner using data from 1993 to 1999 provided by a French marriage bureau. We perform an econometric analysis of the various traits either sought or rejected in a potential partner, respectively by men and women. Our results are consistent with investment in marriage. On the one hand, men tend to reject vulgar and unf...

Background: In the postpartum period, the highest risks for mood disorders include distress, depression and psychosis. Postpartum depression (PPD) is a syndrome which is more severe than postpartum distress with great influence on family. The aim was to determine the predisposing risk factors of PPD among fertile women. Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional study with multi stage samp...

Married men's wage premium is often attributed to within-household specialization: men can devote more effort to wage-earning when their wives assume responsibility for household labor. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of the specialization hypothesis, arguing that, if specialization causes the male marriage premium, married women should experience wage losses. Furthermore, specialization ...

Gay men and lesbians work less and earn less in the labor market than heterosexual men, but work more and earn more than heterosexual women. Same-sex couples share market work more equally and have fewer children than different-sex couples. This paper identifies marriage markets as a theoretical source of these differences. The paper characterizes marital matching and pre-marital human capital ...

with the arrivalof modernityin iranthe society normshave changedandtraditional patterns,especially family pattern, has been under various changes simultaneously. for instance,theaverage age of marriagefor girlshas increased over the past decades. this paper aims todetermine and analyze factors affecting the gap in women’s behavior and attitudes ontheappropriate age ofmarriage for girlsin the ci...

Innovations in birth control technology have largely affected women and their available fertility choices. We analyze the consequences of these innovation on intrahousehold allocation of resources in a simple model of frictionless matching on the marriage market, in which women differ in their taste for children. The qualitative feature of the equilibrium depend on whether men or women are in e...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To review current evidence on the links between early marriage and health-related outcomes for young women and their children. RECENT FINDINGS Every third young woman in the developing countries excluding China continues to marry as a child, that is before age 18. Recent studies reiterate the adverse health consequences of early marriage among young women and their children ...

A stable matching is a complete matching of men and women such that no man and woman who are not partners both prefer each other to their actual partners under the matching. In an instance of the STABLE MARRIAGE problem, each of the n men and n women ranks the members of the opposite sex in order of preference. It is well known that at least one stable matching exists for every STABLE MARRIAGE ...

CONTEXT Although there is a growing body of research examining the issue of nonconsensual sex among adolescents, few studies have looked at coerced sex within marriage in settings where early marriage is common, or at sex that may not be perceived as forced, but that is unwanted. METHODS A cross-sectional study, using both survey research and in-depth interviews, was conducted among 1,664 mar...