I examine the effect of marriage penalties in the US income tax system on marital status. I construct a simulated instrument that exploits variation in the tax code over time and between US states to deal with potential endogeneity between the marriage penalty a couple faces and their marital status. I find that a $1000 increase in the marriage penalty faced reduces the probability of marriage ...

This paper examines the role of women’s education on fertility and child health in Uganda. To identify causal effects, I exploit the timing of a national reform that eliminated primary school fees in 1997 to implement a regression discontinuity design. Women with more schooling both delay and reduce overall fertility, increase early child health investments, and have less chronically malnourish...

This article examines the extent to which the status of women is related to awareness, knowledge, and practice of family planning in India. It uses both macro-level data for the states of India and date from household surveys and field studies to assess the extent of interaction between the women's status indicators and family planning indicators. Results show a definite statistical relations...


 Marriage is one of Allah's commands to unite the perfection worship performed by men and women form a family that sakinah, mawaddah warrahma. Because getting married, can reduce sins indecency from public's eyes protect oneself adultery. This research discuss efforts in applying importance marriage how adjust between couples at KUA Medan Perjuangan District, Jl. Education No.89. The meth...

Family as the smallest and the most fundamental structure of the society forms the basis and foundation of the society and in the meantime marriage itself can be considered as the basis and foundation of the family. Considering the importance of marriage, changing and transitions and creating disorder in the process of the marriage is a social problem which may be affected both the basis of the...

the formation of marriage which is the foundation of family in both islam and zoroastrianism depends on certain requirements or conditions. the comparative study of these requirements or conditions shows certain similarities and differences between the two religions, and examining these issues can shed light on the common tradition and shared heritage between the two. the present essay will fir...

power is an important social variable in the study of the social structure, institutions, groupsand individuals considered to be a conventional relationship and family is no exception. themain purpose of this article to review the decision making power of women in the family iswhite and its influencing factors. this research is a quantitative survey, which was conductedin 2011 in the town of pr...