Marriage age is one of the important indexes to the mental and physical health evaluation in the society. The aim of this study is the knowledge of socio-economic factors related to increase of marriage age in Kermanshah City. The research is descriptive with questionnaire the age in age range is 25-39 in Kermanshah. 380 individuals were selected via Chocran cluster random sampling. The results...

It is often assumed that in the historical transformation to modern industrial society, the integration of women into the economy occurred everywhere as a three-phase process: in pre-modern societies, the extensive integration of women into societal production; then, their wide exclusion with the shift to industrial society; and finally, their re-integration into paid work during the further co...

Polygynous marriage is generally more beneficial for men than it is for women, although women may choose to marry an already-married man if he is the best alternative available. We use the theory of biological markets to predict that the likelihood of a man marrying polygynously will be a function of the level of resources that he has, the local sex ratio, and the resources that other men in th...

It is widely acknowledged that age at marriage has a significant influence on fertility, particularly in countries where childbearing occurs within marriage. However, the complexities of this relationship are poorly understood, especially during fertility transitions. This paper investigates the complex relationship between marriage age and marital fertility by examining the initiation of child...

increased unemployment and rising incidence of divorce are instances of a risky society that can affect women and men’s decisions about family formation. the present study aims to investigate the relationship between the indicators of risky society and the mean age at first marriage among women and men in iran. the paper uses the district-level data from the 2011 iranian census. the results sho...

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...

A rapid rise in women’s education levels, an increase in the age at marriage and an increase in the age at which they have their Þrst child are key features of demographic transition in any country. Education is considered to be an essential component in this process because increases in educational attainment are likely to signiÞcantly affect both age at marriage and the duration between marri...

This paper considers a marriage market with two-sided search and transferable utility in which the match payoff depends on age. It characterizes a set of payoff functions consistent with two salient marriage age patterns, (1) assortative matching by age, and (2) “differential age matching”, a formalization of the age difference at marriage between men and women. Some simple conditions on slope ...

this article studied cultural factors influencing the choice of spouse in a samlpe of 300 students of iran university of medical sciences, 59.1% being medical students and the rest nonmedical. the average age of the sample was 21.6. results showed that there was a significant difference between the two sesex regarding the age of marriage, and all of them agreed that engagement s essential. temp...

the focus of this paper is to investigate economic analysis of the relationship between marriage benefits to age at marriage and its duration. economic theory helps to understand that family formation has some benefits that emerge in various aspects. one of the benefits of marriage –such that is observed in literature of family– can be the increase of the income of couples after family formatio...