Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33916 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2166
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as unmarried women begin to hear their biological clock tick, they may settle for matches far from the optimal. Analyses based on cycles 5 and 6 of the National Surveys of Family Growth show that the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability is strongly negative up to the late twenties, with a flattening of the curve thereafter.
Subjects: 
divorce
marital dissolution
marriage
JEL: 
J12
J11
J10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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