Highly Educated Women Marry Less: An Analysis of Female Marriage Rates in Spain

Martínez‐Pastor, Juan‐Ignacio

doi:10.1080/13608740802346577

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“…However, Oppenheimer (1997 and considers that there is no explanatory basis for this, and maintains that women's educational attainments and professional activities actually make it easier for them to marry. The results obtained using our models confirm what other authors found in various studies concerning Spain (Miret-Gamundi, 2002;Martínez-Pastor, 2008;Requena and Salazar, 2014): when the level of education rises within the population (or the percentage of illiteracy drops) the intensity of nuptiality falls.…”

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“…Lesthaeghe and López-Gay (2013), in a study of Spain andBelgium (1880-2010), using data by province, show how the synergies between cultural and structural factors played a major role during the historical fertility and nuptiality transition (first demographic transition) and have continued to condition demographic innovations connected to the "second demographic transition". Martínez-Pastor (2008) analyzed how the increase in women's educational attainment influenced marriage in Spain in the cohorts of women born between 1921 and 1985. Finally, Requena and Salazar (2014) published an article based on a longitudinal analysis of cohorts of Spanish women born in the first half of the 20th century.…”

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Trends in the proportion of married women of reproductive age in Spain, 1887–1991

Sánchez-Barricarte

2017

The History of the Family

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Using the Princeton nuptiality index Im we analyzed historical developments in the proportion of married women of reproductive age in Spain. We show the internal diversity in nuptiality patterns and offer an explanatory statistical model based on panel data analysis to identify the main variables influencing these changes over more than a century . We found that Spain has been the developed country with the greatest contrasts in its provincial nuptiality patterns (measured by Im) even though this diversity has lessened over the course of time. We also found that some socioeconomic variables (the gross domestic product per capita and the percentage of population living in cities) do not have a linear relationship with female nuptiality but rather a U-shape or inverted U-shape. This may partly account for some of the controversy that has raged on this topic over the last few decades on an international level.

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Trends in the proportion of married women of reproductive age in Spain, 1887–1991

Sánchez-Barricarte

2017

The History of the Family

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Women’s Age at First Marriage and Long-Term Economic Empowerment in Egypt

2018

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Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 calls on nations to promote gender equality and to empower women and girls. SDG5 also recognizes the value of women's economic empowerment, entailing equal rights to economic resources and full participation at all levels in economic decisions. Also according to SDG5, eliminating harmful practices-such as child marriage before age 18-is a prerequisite for women's economic empowerment. Using national data for 4,129 married women 15-43 years who took part in the (ELMPS 1998-2012), we performed autoregressive, cross-lagged panel analyses to assess whether women's first marriage in adulthood (at 18 years or older, as reported in 2006), was positively associated with their long-term post-marital economic empowerment, measured as their engagement in market work and latent family economic agency in 2012. Women's first marriage in adulthood had positive unadjusted associations with their market work and family economic agency in 2012. These associations persisted after accounting for market work and family economic agency in 2006, pre-marital resources for empowerment, and cumulative fertility. Policies to discourage child marriage may show promise to enhance women's long-term post-marital economic empowerment.

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Spot market wages, implicit contracts and technological change: skill-level evidence from Finland

Hynninen

Maczulskij

2013

Applied Economics

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This article investigates the relevance of the theories of implicit contracts and spot market model to the skill-level wages in Finland. We use linked worker-firm panel data over the period from 1991 to 2004, which included major institutional and technological changes. We find similar patterns in the wage flexibility of primary and highly educated workers: their wages increased with the decreasing spot market unemployment rate after the EU membership still exhibiting some weak backward linkages. The wages of the secondaryeducated did not follow the decreasing spot market unemployment, but instead some signs of the full commitment risk sharing were found.

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Highly Educated Women Marry Less: An Analysis of Female Marriage Rates in Spain

Cited by 7 publications

References 32 publications

Trends in the proportion of married women of reproductive age in Spain, 1887–1991

Trends in the proportion of married women of reproductive age in Spain, 1887–1991

Women’s Age at First Marriage and Long-Term Economic Empowerment in Egypt

Spot market wages, implicit contracts and technological change: skill-level evidence from Finland

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