This paper identifies and quantifies the social processes that account for the well-known relationship between chronological age and entry into marriage. Patterns of entry into marriage, broken down by sex, year of birth and level of schooling, are used to estimate year to year fluctuations in the available pool of marriage partners. Age-related variation in entry into marriage is then considered in ...
Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW),
1991,
(Diskussionspapier Nr. 23)
| James C. Witte