Educational Attainment and the Transition to First Marriage among Japanese Women

Raymo, James M.

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“…Investigating the contribution of women's educational attainment to their marriage timing in several developed countries, Blossfeld (1995) found that women's higher education reduces the probability of marriage only in countries where despite substantial gender equality in societal roles (such as education and employment), gender equality in family roles (such as housekeeping and childrearing) remain low. The negative effect of women's education on their age at marriage has also been shown in the context of Japan, where despite improvements in women's education and paid work, gender differences in family roles remain substantial (Raymo, 2003).…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Education can change women's preferences regarding marriage timing and optimal spouse characteristics, leading to marriage postponement. In addition, women's higher educational levels postpone marriage by extending the time they are enrolled in education and delaying transition to adulthood roles to higher ages (Santow and Bracher, 1994;Blossfeld, 1995;Pollard and Wu, 1998;Raymo, 2003).…”

Section: Perspectives On Marriage Timingmentioning

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Marriage Postponement in Iran: Accounting for Socio‐economic and Cultural Change in Time and Space

Torabi

Baschieri

Clarke

et al. 2012

Population Space and Place

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The mean age at marriage of Iranian women increased by three years between the mid‐1980s and 2000 during a period of great socio‐economic change, particularly affecting the 1971–1975 and 1976–1980 birth cohorts. This paper analyses the marriage timing and life course experience of these cohorts of women and highlights the contribution that ethnicity and changes in the socio‐economic context made to the sharp marriage delay experienced by the 1976–1980 birth cohort. A discrete time hazard model is applied to the 2000 Iran Demographic and Health Survey data, which are linked to a range of time‐varying district‐level contextual variables created from the 1986 and 1996 Iranian censuses. The findings suggest that the marriage postponement experienced by the younger birth cohort is related to improvements in women's education and can partly be explained by the increased opportunity costs of marriage, which resulted from limited access to education after marriage. The findings also suggest that differences in marriage timing between areas predominated by certain ethnic groups became less evident for the younger birth cohort. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Perspectives On Marriage Timingmentioning

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Marriage Postponement in Iran: Accounting for Socio‐economic and Cultural Change in Time and Space

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Baschieri

Clarke

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“…Along with family structure, gender relations, and other aspects of the family, marriage timing has served as a marker of social change (Nobles and Buttenheim ; Raymo ; Yabiku ). In most societies the trend has been in the direction of later marriages (Lesthaeghe and Moors ).…”

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“…Kalmijn () argues that education tends to harm marriage prospects in countries with more traditional gender role attitudes but fosters it in more gender‐egalitarian countries. Studies in Japan show that while in the past education was negatively associated with marriage formation among women (e.g., Raymo ), a reversal of the education gradient was recently found for younger women (Fukuda ). Evidence from South Asia indicates that the linear relationship between education and age at marriage also exists in developing societies.…”

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Links Between Education and Age at Marriage among Palestinian Women in Israel: Changes Over Time

Sabbah-Karkaby¹,

Stier²

2017

Studies in Family Planning

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This study focuses on the link between education and marriage timing amongE ducation is an important determinant of marriage patterns in developed societies, especially in light of the rise in the level of education. In most industrialized societies it has risen dramatically in recent decades, and in many countries more so for women than for men (Shavit and Blossfeld 1996; Diprete and Buckman 2013). Better education, especially for women, has become one of the most noteworthy triggers of change in women's marriage patterns. In particular, education is strongly associated with the postponement of marriage to an older age (Cherlin 1992;Oppenheimer 1997).Numerous studies have examined social factors that can explain the link between education and marriage postponement. Most research has centered on women in Western societies, while traditional contexts have had little scholarly attention. Here we examine the marriage patterns of Palestinian women in Israel and their relation to higher educational attainment. Although the Palestinian population in Israel has undergone demographic, social, and economic changes in the past three decades-most notably in improved educationtraditional patterns, especially regarding marital behavior and gender roles, are still preserved Maha Sabbah-Karkaby is a post-doctoral fellow, Centre for Gender Studies-SOAS-University of London.

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“…Socio‐demographic research on sibship structures has focused mostly on educational attainment and labor market success, yet sibling configurations may also be associated with outcomes such as teen marriage to the extent that they affect parents’ expectations and allocation of household resources to a child (Yu, Su, and Chiu ). Studies of family formation that consider sibship effects rarely explore beyond the number of siblings (e.g., Raymo ). Nevertheless, as research on sibship characteristics and educational attainment shows, individuals’ access to household resources may depend not only on their sibship size, but also on their ordinal position of birth and sibship sex‐composition.…”

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Household Determinants of Teen Marriage: Sister Effects Across Four Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

Pesando¹,

Abufhele²

2019

Studies in Family Planning

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This article investigates the household determinants of teen marriage in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam using data from the international Young Lives study tracking a cohort of children from the ages of 8-19 over a 15-year period. First, we offer a descriptive and comparative overview of the prevalence of teen marriage among girls in geographically selected areas of the four countries, together with their sociodemographic determinants. Second, we place a specific focus on the role of gender and sibling sex-composition in shaping the probability of getting married by age 19. Drawing on the significant crosscountry heterogeneity in household context, direction of marriage payments, and prevalence of arranged marriage, we test hypotheses relating to the availability of economic resources within the household and cultural norms surrounding the order and timing of marriage. We show that in Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam, presence and number of older sisters in the household are associated with a 30-50 percent lower likelihood of teen marriage, while the association is null in Peru. Also, we show that having a girl as next-youngest sibling does not significantly affect girls' likelihood of experiencing teen marriage, except in Ethiopia. Our results combined support theories of family-level resource constraints over sibling rivalry hypotheses. Our findings enrich and complement existing evidence on the role of sibling sex-composition on adolescent outcomes in low-and middle-income countries.

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Educational Attainment and the Transition to First Marriage among Japanese Women

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Marriage Postponement in Iran: Accounting for Socio‐economic and Cultural Change in Time and Space

Marriage Postponement in Iran: Accounting for Socio‐economic and Cultural Change in Time and Space

Links Between Education and Age at Marriage among Palestinian Women in Israel: Changes Over Time

Household Determinants of Teen Marriage: Sister Effects Across Four Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

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