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The Role of Education/Economic Prospects in Timing of First Marriage and First Birth in the U.S. and South Korea Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Clark University, 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Age at First Marriage; Cross-national Analysis; Earnings; Educational Attainment; Korea, Korean; Labor Force Participation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this dissertation, I examine and compare the effects of three key economic prospects – education attainment, employment status and real earnings – on the timing of first marriage and first child in the U.S. and South Korea, respectively. Both age at first marriage and age at first birth rose rapidly after the 1960s in the United States. In South Korea, these ages were even higher. The marriage rates drop sharply, while total fertility rates fall below replacement fertility levels in both countries. The increasing delay of first marriage and first child has been accompanied by growth in the educational attainment and real earnings, as well as growth in the labor force participation rates of women. To my knowledge, this is the first to offer such a comparison between the U.S. and South Korea, linking the relationship between labor market position and both marriage and fertility behaviors. |
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Pan, Chen. The Role of Education/Economic Prospects in Timing of First Marriage and First Birth in the U.S. and South Korea. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Clark University, 2015. |